Your thorns are the best part of you.
~ Marianne Moore
I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.
~ Barbra Streisand
If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another before you do anything you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.
~ Marilyn Vos Savant
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
~ Amy Tan
The precept Know yourself was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.
~ Cicero
I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are the signposts are there waiting for us to translate them.
~ Gail Godwin
It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll-line of condemnation and ... if you find the whole of humanity falls below it you have simply made a mistake and drawn it too high. And you are probably below it yourself.
~ Frances Partridge
I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami but salami is salami.
~ Stephen King
Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature with all its contradictions appetites aversions rages can one hope to understand a little ... oh I admit only a very little ... of what life is about.
~ Françoise Sagan
The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.
~ Flannery O'connor
We do not make beams from the hollow decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.
~ Sylvia Pankhurst
We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
~ Adrienne Rich
Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.
~ Mary Mcleod Bethune
There is a potential heroine in every woman.
~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth as human truth all the maps change. There are new mountains.
~ Ursula K. Leguin
I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery the offering the pride.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.
~ Antoinette Brown Blackwell
For women there are undoubtedly great difficulties in the path but so much the more to overcome. First no woman would say I am but a woman! But a woman! What more can you ask to be?
~ Maria Mitchell
Ability is sexless.
~ Christabel Pankhurst
We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.
~ Olive Schreiner
Remember Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but she did it backwards and in high heels.
~ Faith Whittlesey
There may be ways in which we can work for change. We don't have to do dramatic things or devote our entire lives to it. We can lead normal lives but at the same time try hard not to be bystanders.
~ Helen Bamber
Some people give time some money some their skills and connections some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
~ Barbara Bush
Though I have no productive worth I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
~ Alice James
I was once the typical daughter then the easily recognizable wife and then the quintessential mother. I seem always to have reminded people of someone in their family. Perhaps I am just the triumph of Plain Jane.
~ Helen Hayes
God wastes nothing.
~ Jan Karon
To be a housewife is ... a difficult a wrenching sometimes ungrateful job if it's looked on as only a job. Regarded as a profession it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world will be lost indeed.
~ Phyllis Mcginley
It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. ... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
~ Golda Meir
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all there is only the meaning we each give to our life an individual meaning an individual plot like an individual novel a book for each person.
~ Anaïs Nin
I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.
~ Rosie O'donnell
The surest sign of fitness is success.
From the first I made my learning what little it was useful every way I could.
I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies but you can't buy love.
~ Raquel Welch
I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.
~ Fay Weldon
I am not a glutton-I am an explorer of food.
~ Erma Bombeck
I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.
~ Elayne Boosler
To know oneself one should assert oneself.
~ Albert Camus
I am because my little dog knows me.
~ Gertrude Stein
There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
