I do not know what my fate will be, I suspect it has been decided.Do you believe your fate has been decided?
- Her Imperial Majesty, Joséphine, Empress of France (1763-1814)
Every failure, obstacle or hardship is an opportunity in disguise. Success in many cases is failure turned inside out. The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' - with - 'I can, I will, I must.'
- Mary Kay (1918-2001)
I never thought of myself as a ‘Star’, not even after I made my biggest films. Perhaps that’s because I am basically an introvert. I knew that I loved working, performing. What the public made of it was their business. I hoped that they liked me and admired my work, of course, but that pedestal they stuck me up on was insignificant in my view.What pedestals have we been placed upon? By whom?
- Cyd Charisse (1922-2008)
Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.Grand Mother believed it was easy to distinguish a lady...
- Edith Head (1897-1981)
I knew if it could be done, it had to be done, and I did itWhat can be done?
- Gertrude Ederle (1905-2003)
Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.I am a country of one.
- Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)
There are two kinds of restrictions upon human liberty -- the restraint of law and that of custom. No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by public opinion.What restrictions do you place upon yourself?
- Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)
The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
- Florynce Kennedy (1916 - 2000)
When I dance LA CACHUCHA...I sway my hips to Spanish castanets...and Congress refuses to convene...What happens when YOU dance?
- Fanny Elssler (1810-1884)
I shall model you in wax...To be immortalized in wax - the idea is quite creepy, yet much of modern day society seems rather obsessed with celebrity. Years and years ago, when I first visited the famous wax museum in London, I was amused at how visitors pose with the lifeless models. What do they do with these photographs I wonder?
- Madame Marie Tussaud (1761-1850)
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines.The Warrior Peasant rode the blue elephant goddess and began to amass her army of women with the battle cry of:
- Triệu Thị Trinh (c. 225 - 248 A.D.)
LOVE and LAUGHTERThe two most important ingredients in the recipe of life...
- Estelle Getty (1923-2008)
The verb "to love" in Persian is "to have a friend."
"I love you" translated literally is "I have you as a friend," and "I don't like you" simply means "I don't have you as a friend.”
- Shushā Guppy (1935-2008)
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.love the moment...
Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
- Corita Kent (1918 – 1986)
And now a word, in uncouth rhymeThe Once-Great-King would travel for hours on horseback to consult an unassuming crone who had studied with renowned healers in India.
Of what shall be in future time...
- Mother Shipton (c. 1488 - 1561)
I have been carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body, I believe this has been the direct result of my having been torn from my homeland (Cuba) during my adolescence. I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature).Twenty-nine years ago, my life was uprooted, never to be the same again. As a six-year-old expatriate, I witnessed my family nucleus gradually fray and painfully unravel in the midst of warfare, confusion and revolution.
- Ana Mendieta (1948-1985)
Nor fear nor love has moved my soul---Woman, are you a warrior – a peaceful warrior of the light?
Away such idle thought!
A warrior's glory is the goal
By my ambition sought.
- Hua Mu-Lan(approximately 5th c. AD)
When you live as if there wasn't any future you can get pleasure out of anything. Even out of a bowl of grapes!Can you get pleasure out of anything?
- Kay Francis (1905-1968)
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.Do you criticize your friends?
- Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942)
...Cada día mi fantasía tenía que inventar un nuevo cuento para complacerlos...Cuales son tus fantasías?
- Margarita Debayle Sacasa de Pallais
(20th century, born July 14th - timeless)
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.Who are the heroes and heroines in your life?
- Nina Simone, High Priestess of Soul (1933-2003)
Perfumada laranjeira,I absolutely adore the sound of Língua Portuguesa.
Linda assim dessa maneira,
Sorrindo à luz do arrebol,
Toda em flores, branca toda
- Parece a noiva do Sol
Preparada para a boda.
E esposa do Sol, que a adora,
Com que cuidados divinos
Curva ela os ramos, agora!
E entre as folhas abrigados,
Seus filhos, frutos dourados,
Parecem sois pequeninos.
- Júlia Lopes Almeida (1862-1934)
Goodnight room."Goodnight Moon" was one of my favorite bedtime books as a child.
Goodnight moon.
Goodnight cow jumping over the moon.
Goodnight light, and the red balloon...
- Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952)
You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.What do you love?
- Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959)
I have no riches but my thoughts, yet these are wealth enough for me.What are our riches?
- Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879)
A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for.Where has your ship taken you?
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper (1906-1992)
I am Henry's daughter, wife and mother; great by birth, greater by marriage, but greatest in motherhood.What is truly GREAT about you?
- Empress Matilda (1102-1167)
Before my son was conceived, I dreamt that a thunderbolt fell upon my body and kindled a great fire whose divided flames dispersed themselves all about and then were extinguished…Do you remember dreams?
- Olympias (ca. 375 - 316 BC)
Oh beautiful, for spacious skies,Today let us pray for WORLD PEACE...for INNER PEACE...
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea.
Oh beautiful, for pilgrims' feet
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America! God mend thine ev'ry flaw;
Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law!
Oh beautiful, for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America! May God thy gold refine,
'Til all success be nobleness, and ev'ry gain divine!
Oh beautiful, for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years,
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea!
- Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)
...You, madam, wish to have the best husband, and you, Xenophon, desire above all things to have the finest wife. Therefore, unless you can contrive that there be no better man or finer woman on earth you will certainly always be in dire want of what you consider best, namely, that you be the husband of the very best of wives, and that she be wedded to the very best of men...Are we the best we can be?
- Aspasia of Miletus (ca. 465 – ca. 400 BC)
Address me not as Sultana,What titles do you answer to?
for it means merely wife or mistress of a sultan.
I answer only to the title of SULTAN...
- Sultana Razia of Delhi (1205-1240)
If I adore You out of fear of Hell, burn me in Hell!Who adores you?
If I adore you out of desire for Paradise,
Lock me out of Paradise.
But if I adore you for Yourself alone,
Do not deny to me Your eternal beauty.
- Rabi'ah al-`Adawiyah (unknown – d. 801 CE)
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.Our minds never seem to stop.
- Madame de Staël (1766-1817)
I belong to no race nor time.
I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
- Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960)
...un templo del arte...temple of art
- Hope Portocarrero Debayle de Somoza (1929 –1991)
Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.Who do you praise?
- Edmonia Lewis (around 1843-1911)
O Lord, Thy loving mercy
Is high as the heavens;
It tells us of Thy truth
And 'tis filled with holiness.
Whilst humbly meditating
Within these walls imprisoned,
Thou art my light, my haven
Thy glory my support.
Oh, look not on our failing,
Nor on the sins of men.
Forgive with loving kindness
That we might be made pure.
For Thy grace I beseech Thee;
Bring us 'neath Thy protection
And peace will be our portion,
Now and forevermore. Amen.
- Queen Lili'uokalani (1838-1917)
And if any person will meddle of my cause, I require them to judge the best.How do we meddle?
- Anne Boleyn (1500 – 1536)
A closed mind is a dying mind.
- Edna Ferber (1885–1968)
I dedicated all my life to music.To what do we dedicate our lives?
- Renata Tebaldi (1922-2004)
Proud Beauty will not own thee! Her loud boastAre you proud?
Is VlRTUE--while thy chilling breath alone
Blows o'er her soul. bidding her passions sleep.
- Ann Yearsley (1753-1808)
No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.What do we TRUST even when we do not understand?
- Elsa Einstein (1876-1936)
It is our duty to make this world a better place for women.What does duty mean to you?
- Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958)
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.Are you seeking for happiness?
- Agnes Repplier (1855-1950)
In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.What needs to be done?
- Dorothea Dix (1802-1887)
Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.
- Andrea Dworkin (1946 - 2005)
