Showing posts with label quotes for women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes for women. Show all posts

Awesome Quotes By Women, For Women


Need some inspiration? Here are some of the best 'woman-power' quotes from around the world. You've probably heard some of them before, but they can still lift your spirits.


Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible for another decade.-Constance Baker Motley, the first black woman to become a Federal Judge. 
(I'd say she was right, wouldn't you?)

A woman must not depend upon the protection of a man, but must be taught to protect herself. -Susan B. Anthony, American activist

If you ever want a man to do anything, you have to make him think it was his idea. -My mother

The only things we really regret in life are the risks we don't take.-Ariel (Ann-Margaret in Grumpy Old Men)

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people-your family, friends and coworkers and even strangers you meet along the way.-Barbara Bush, former First Lady

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.-Helen Keller

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, only speak words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.-Audrey Hepburn

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.-Nancy Willard, American poet

Well-behaved women seldom make history.-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author (often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt)

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, it doesn't matter what else there is; it's not enough.-Ann Landers

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.-Marilyn Monroe

Feminism, to me, isn't about bucking tradition so much as being about *choices*. You can choose to be an astronaut or you can choose to be a housewife. It doesn't matter; as long as it was *your* choice. - That one's mine. Like it?

Inspirational Quotes For Women



In another post, I gave you several of my favorite quotes for mothers. Now, here are a few for women in general. Think of it as bite-sized inspiration!

Charm is deceptive, beauty is fleeting. But the woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.-Proverbs 31:30.

The larger passage Proverbs 31:20-31 gives the description of an honorable woman, one I think we can all identify with in some way. Even if we don't plant vineyards or look for the best wool or flax, we have a great deal of strength that others may not see. We do it all for the love of our families, not to glorify ourselves.

To the whole world, you might be just one person. To one person, you are the whole world.-Unknown

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.-E.M. Forster, Novelist

Personal note: I agree! Women tend to be more slow to anger and don't use brute force if we don't have to. If we do, however, it's quick and direct. Think about it; have you ever seen two women fight? It's fast and one-on-one. She would sooner scratch another woman's eyes out and be done with it than send her son off to do it!

A woman is like a tea bag-you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.-Eleanor Roosevelt

Contrary to popular opinion, you don't have to hate men to be a feminist. You just have to love women.-my friend Veronica

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.-Susan B. Anthony, activist and one of the reasons we have the rights we do today.

I'd rather be thought of as smart, capable, strong and compassionate than beautiful. Those things all persist long after beauty fades. -Cassandra Duffy, Author

Everything I ever needed to know about life, I learned in kindergarten. Boys are stupid.-A greeting card a friend once gave me

Women have been ruling for ages. We just let men think they do.-Me, in response to a guy in my history class' allegation that women aren't fit for ruling a country

If you ever want a man to do anything, you have to make him think it was his idea.-My mother, and boy was she right! :)

In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.-Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister. Take that, history-class-guy! :)

A woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.-Susan B. Anthony, activist

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.-Diane Ackerman, poet


To conclude, a link to the words every woman and girl needs to hear:
Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou