I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.With every year that passes, I enjoy who I am and where I am headed...
- Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962)
Being a woman is a great adventure.
Being a woman is a gift...an honor.
dreams, musings, personal mythology
I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.With every year that passes, I enjoy who I am and where I am headed...
- Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962)
Pies para qué los quiero si tengo alas para volar...
Feet why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
- Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
- Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco (1929-1982)
I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady.
- Irene Dunne (1898-1990)
Mi vida es mi obra:The art of living...
Siento la inmensa dicha de haber nacido bajo la tutela de los Andes que son la expresión de la fuerza y el milagro cósmico así mi obra expresa el espiritu de mi tierra Andina y el espiritu de mi gente aymara.
- Marina Nuñez del Prado (approximately 1910 -1995)
I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.Time is about to birth a new year...
Time is not on your side, but I am.
- Estée Lauder (1906-2004)
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
- Eartha Kitt (1927-2008)
Entonces...
- Maruca Tercero de Sacasa (1918-2005)
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
- Wallis Simpson, The Duchess of Windsor (1896-1986)
I guess I write about myself because that’s all I really know.
- Jean Rhys (1890 – 1979)
And ain't I a woman?...If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it. The men better let them.
- Soujourner Truth (around 1797-1883)
If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
- Lillian Carter (1898-1983)
Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.Do you have the ability to make and keep friends?
- Sophie Tucker (1884-1966)
My interest in the woman question began soon after my marriage when my husband, a patient young lawyer waiting for business, invited me to bring my knitting work to his office every day, where he would read to me from his law books, and in the evenings I might read literature to him, whose weak eyes forbade his ever using them in the evening. For four years we kept on this even tenor of our way, and to it I owe my intelligent interest in public affairs and a certain discipline of mind - since I never attended school or college after my sixteenth year.Who has been your greatest teacher? I recently gave birth to mine...
- Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822 – 1907)
For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.Well, speaking from a personal experience, exile is a death of sorts...and a rebirth as well.
- Theodora, Empress of Byzantium (c. 497-548)
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.What do you think about every day?
- Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)
It all came to me in the kitchen when I was making a pot roast one day, looking at these long, thin rods that held the pot roast together and heated it up from the inside. I figured you could use them like hair rollers, then heat them up to cook a permanent curl into the hair.Do you dare to follow through with ideas?
- Marjorie Stewart Joyner
(1896-1994)
Si bien fue muy provechosa mi estancia en NY, sentía la nostalgia de mi Nicaragua. Me hacían falta desde las brisas del lago hasta el sonido de sus campanas.What is it about Nicaragua that causes such nostalgia in me? I have not been back to my motherland in months and am anxious to return as soon as possible...
- Edith Grön (1917-1990)
It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.Oh what pointy toes some have...
- Norma Shearer (1902-1983)
The truth is like surgery, it cuts, but it cures.What truth do you attempt to avoid in your life?
- Lana Turner (1920-1995)
I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
- Hedy Lamarr (1913–2000)
The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
- Agnes George de Mille (1905-1993)
Every woman, if forced to, can do more than she ever thought she could. In running my business I just used common sense, a man would call it "horse sense."I have recently learned that I can certainly do more than what I ever thought I could do. I do use common sense, but I also call upon my GODDESS–SENSE...
- Rose Knox, (1857-1950)
Let us be patient with one another,
And even patient with ourselves.
We have a long, long way to go.
So let us hasten along the road,
The road of human tenderness and generosity.
Groping, we may find one another's hands in the dark.
- Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961)
The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.What precedents has your generation made?
- Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood (1830-1917)
I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
- Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1937)
There must be a goal at every stage of life!
There must be a goal!
- Maggie Kuhn (1905–1995)
You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.
- Romy Schneider (1938-1982)
They took dead men's soulsIt was the middle of the night...
And pinned them on their breasts for ornament;
Their cuff-links and tiaras
Were gems dug from a grave;
They were ghouls battening on exhumed thoughts;
And I took a green liqueur from a servant
So that he might come near me
And give me the comfort of a living thing.
- Amy Lowell (1874 – 1925)
Hay que vivir como en todo, actualizado. Vivir leyendo, dando vueltas junto con el mundo, no estar viendo que el mundo da vueltas, sino meterse en ese movimiento, si no te quedás, como el que quedó esperando un bus en la parada y lo vio partir. Si uno sigue así, se hace viejo, yo, en ese sentido, sí me siento jovencita.How do you live your life?
- Floricelda Rivas Aráuz (1947-2007)
There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.What are your plans for today?
- Greta Garbo (1905-1990)
Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.How does one become a second rate version of another?
- Judy Garland (1922-1969)
Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.How many secrets do you keep?
- Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992)
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
And the people in the houses
All went to the university,
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martinis dry,
And they all have pretty children
And the children go to school,
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university,
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same.
And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
- Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978)
A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.What crowns do we wear?
- Pearl Bailey (1918-1990)
...everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.What is your purpose on earth?
- Mourning Dove Christine Quintasket (1888-1936)
I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.Where do you leave the shreds of your soul?
- Oriana Fallaci (1930-2006)
All food they give me contains poison and I am starving.How do we poison ourselves through thoughts, words, actions?
- Empress Carlota of Mexico (1840-1927)
I paint pictures which do not exist and which I would like to see.What pictures do you paint in your dreams?
- Leonor Fini (1908-1996)
Love grows by service.How do you serve?
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
Life is too short to work so hard.If we are doing work we LOVE, then it does not seem very hard...
- Vivien Leigh (1913-1967)
La oración es para el alma lo que el aire para los pulmones.Prayer requires neither a priest nor a church, much less an audience.
Prayer is to the soul what air is to the lungs.
- Sor María Romero Meneses (1902 – 1977)
Bearing a baby, writing a poem; both enter into life as beings not quite my own, but nourished by my blood and my milk.Who or what do we nourish into life? A child? A pet? A garden? A dish? A relationship? A book? A painting?
- Ruth Whitman (1921/22-1999)