I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.
~ Coco Chanel
I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.
~ Oriana Fallaci
The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.
~ Robert W. Service
I shall be an autocrat that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me that's his.
~ Catherine The Great
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.
~ Lin Yutang
Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.
~ Joshua L. Liebman
To say something nice about themselves this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.
~ Nancy Friday
After my screen test the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!
~ Ava Gardner
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings they gradually begin to seem mild harmless rather engaging little things not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
~ Margaret Halsey
It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous but rather the studious way we try to hide them and our desire to act as if they did not exist.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.
~ Isak Dinesen
A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.
~ Jean Lush
Learning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.
~ Mignon Mclaughlin
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
