Today I found some more quotes by women and for women. I'm going to kick off with my favourite (this is what I tell my girlfriends and clients all the time!)
"Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away." ~ Barbara De Angelis
Enjoy. xox
"I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves." ~ Mary Wollstonecraft
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." ~ Maya Angelou
"But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!" ~ Charlotte Bronte
"Rise to the occasion which is life!" ~ Virginia Euwer Wolff
"Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead." ~ Paula White
"It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you." ~ Million Dollar Baby
"Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead." ~ Ann Brashares (Girls in Pants) as Tibby Tomko-Rollins
"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
"I think the key is for women not to set any limits." ~ Martina Navratilova
"People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me." ~ Princess Diana
"The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him" ~ Helen Rowland
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." ~ Mother Teresa
"Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes." ~ Angelina Jolie
"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around." ~ Katharine Hepburn
"A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. It’s complicated by the fact that in most nations women receive substantially less education than men." ~ Melinda Gates
"I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us." ~ Louisa May Alcott
"Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me." ~ Janis Joplin
"Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future." ~ Audrey Hepburn
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." ~ Helen Keller
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness." ~ Julia Roberts
"Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him." ~ Marlyn Monroe
"One's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring results." ~ Florence Nightingale
"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt." ~ Madonna.
"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country" ~ Margaret Thatcher, first female prime minister of UK.
"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained." ~ Marie Curie
"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back." ~ Barbara De Angelis
"Sometimes questions are more important than answers." ~ Nancy Willard
"When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win." ~ Steffi Graf, German Tennis Player
"When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking." ~ Elayne Boosler
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it." ~ Maya Angelou
"Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. ~ J. K. Rowling, J. K. Rowling Official Website "
"One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. ~ Virginia Woolf
"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman." ~ Anais Nin, French born American author of short stories
"When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end." ~ Stephenie Meyer as Bella Swan in Twilight
"The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain." ~ Jennifer Anniston
I'm obsessed with quotes like these :-) LOVE them!
ReplyDeleteLoving others unconditionally gives a profound vision to the lover himself; A vision uncolored, pure and of totality ... one that exists with or without his devoir, yet its existence becomes him as he is one with all. -- Robin Garip, NJ
ReplyDeleteThis is great, thanks for sharing. Its like a drug, medicine for the soul.
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