The very form, the very scent,
not heavy, not sensuous,
but perilous perilous
of orchids, piled in a great sheath.
- H.D. Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
- Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)
As long as I live I will have control over my being.
- Artemisia Gentileschi
(1593-1651/53)
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
I did my best, and God did the rest.
- Hattie McDaniel (1895-1952)
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.
- Greer Garson
(1904-1996)
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
- Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Our greatest trouble is to teach pupils not to be befooled by appearances.
- Madame Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891)
A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
- Betty Friedan (1921-2006)
Te doy mi alma desnuda,
como estatua a la cual ningún cendal escuda.
Desnuda con el puro impudor
de un fruto, de una estrella o una flor;
de todas esas cosas que tienen la infinita
serenidad de Eva antes de ser maldita.
De todas esas cosas,
frutos, astros y rosas,
que no sienten vergüenza del sexo sin celajes
y a quienes nadie osara fabricarles ropajes.
Sin velos, como el cuerpo de una diosa serena
¡que tuviera una intensa blancura de azucena!
Desnuda, y toda abierta de par en par
¡por el ansia del amar!
- Juana de Ibarbourou (1892(5) – 1979)
The world will know and understand me someday.
But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter.
I shall have opened the way for other women.
- George Sand (1804-1897)
Freedom is not something you are given,
but something you have to take.
- Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985)
The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organization of mass and tension – the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.
- Barbara Hepworth (1903-1795)
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
- Julia Morgan (1872 – 1957)
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
— Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
- Mae West (1892-1980)
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
- Marie Curie (1867-1934)
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
- Colette (1873-1954)
I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
- Joan Crawford (1905-1977)
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
- Martha Graham (1894 – 1991)
