"A strong woman is one who feels deeply and loves fiercely. Her tears flow just as abundantly as her laughter. A strong woman is both soft and powerful." ~Anon
"A strong woman may remain silent when people talk behind her back. But that doesn't mean she didn't notice. It simply means she chooses not to waste her energy on foolishness. She has more important things to do." ~from Women Working dot com
"A strong woman won't let anyone get the best of her. But a woman of strength gives the best of her to everyone." ~from Wisdom Quotes
"A succulent wild woman is one of any age that feels free to fully express herself in every dimension of her life." ~S.A.R.K.
"A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right rather than what is easy." ~Suze Orman
"A wise woman who knows her proverbs can reconcile difficulties." ~Nigerian Proverb
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." ~Virginia Woolf
"A woman's darkness only grows more gracefully with age" ~A. Eleazer
"A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe." ~George Eliot (1819-1880)
"A woman's work never ends, but the joy of living is with heaven's grace divine." ~Leah C. Dancel, 10 February 2022
"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy - the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love." ~Thomas C Haliburton
"A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her." ~Max
“A woman in a hat is unforgettable”. ~Sophia Loren
"A woman is like a tea bag. She only knows her strength when put in hot water." ~Nancy Reagan
"A woman isn't something to figure out, understand, or analyze. Forget the musing of the mind; immerse yourself into her eyes." ~Sri Gawn Tu Fahr (Jean-Pierre Gregoire, real name, Author)
"A woman is ready to dress up to irritate her friends." ~Moritz (Moses) Gottlieb Saphir
"A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform." ~Diane Mariechild
"A woman is unstoppable after she realizes she deserves better." ~Anon
"A woman is what she is with the kind of man she has." ~Leah C. Dancel, 28 April 2014
"A woman knows a woman." ~Midsomer's Murder episode (ABC 10 Sept 2016)
"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea." ~Honore de Balzac
"A woman sees what she looks for." ~Barbara Jenkins
"A woman who does not require a validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet." ~Mohadesa Najumi
"A woman who is in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself." ~Maya Angelou
"A woman who knows what she brings to the table is not afraid to eat alone." ~Simple Capacity
"A woman who walks with purpose doesn't have to chase people or opportunities. Her light causes people and opportunities to pursue her." ~Dr. Farrah Gray
"A woman whose mood improves with a book, a poem, a song or a cup of coffee is not defeated by anyone; even life loses with her." ~Khalil Gibran
"A woman with a voice, by definition, is a strong woman." ~Melinda Gates
"A woman's heart is like a sea; it's both deep and rough and hides pearls." ~Moritz (Moses) Gottlieb Saphir
"A woman's loyalty is tested when her man has nothing, while a man's loyalty is tested when he has everything." ~Anon
"A woman's sigh can say more than a man's sermon." ~Arnold Haultain
“A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.” ~Washington Irving
"All strong women I know have one thing in common: They know the difference between 'being kind' and 'being used'. They are not afraid to be kind to those who are not kind to them because they know where to draw the line. They understand that it takes strength to be kind. And they believe that they can give kindness to any person on any day without losing any part of themselves." ~Abeer Fahim
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.” ~from "The Importance of Being Earnest
“All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.” ~Paulo Coelho
"An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband." ~Booth Tarkington
"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” ~Virginia Woolf
"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country." ~Margaret Thatcher
"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." ~Virginia Woolf
"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied." ~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author.
"(Astronomical) observations... are peculiarly adapted to women... The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spider web of the micrometer." ~Maria Mitchell (1818-1889, Astronomer, Educator)
“Behind every strong woman is a story that gave her no other choice.” ~Nakeia Homer
"Breaking a woman's heart is deeper than we realise. It destroys her outlook on love, her future relationships, and her peace within herself." ~Anon
"Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part." ~Aimee Mullins
"Cuddling will literally put a woman into a peaceful state of mind. It can even reduce the stress and strengthen her heart." ~Now You Know Facts/FB
"Don't misunderstand a woman when she loves you with all her heart and soul. If she fights with you and then cries and says sorry it doesn’t mean she is weak it's because she values the relationship she shares with you and she thinks you are worthy of being together. Don't get angry with her when she is jealous of your friends because maybe it means she loves you too much and she can't see you spending your time with anyone other than her. Don't get irritated when she is possessive because maybe she wants to explain that you are her world and she cannot share you with anyone else. Don't ignore her if she is nagging for silly things because maybe she needs your attention. If you love a woman don't ignore her and show her that you care for her. When a woman gets attention from her man and feels appreciated for her little things she can love him back in a million ways and much more than you can even imagine in your wildest dreams!" ~Feel Proud To Be who You Are
"Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it." ~Barbara Sher
“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman." ~Coco Chanel
“Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.” ~St Edith Stein also known as St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
"Even in space there's a double standard for women." ~Carrie Fisher
"Even the most independent woman at times wishes she had a good man to depend on." ~Anon
"Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent, in rounding to her full. The woman is still both child and girl, in the completeness of womanly character." ~Lucy Larcom
"Every woman has a right to be beautiful." ~June Dally-Watkins, Australia's Etiquette Queen
"Every woman has her own story. Every woman has her own personal struggle. Every woman has her own journey. It’s not always a good one, and it’s not always a bad one." ~Darkblue Skye
"Every woman is just a different kind of problem." ~Chuck Palahniuk
"Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly" ~Thomas C. Haliburton
"Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases off pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which land in the valley of change." ~Shannon. L Alder
"Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy." ~Lauren Bacall
"Five ways to please a woman: Give her affection, attention, appreciation, listen to her and protect her emotions." ~Anon
“For women, getting angry is socially unacceptable, even when the anger is over violence, discrimination, misogyny, and other forms of oppression. Anger is unacceptable because angry women are women in touch with their passion and power, especially in relation to men, which threatens the entire patriarchal order. It’s unacceptable because it forces men to confront the reality of male privilege and women’s oppression and their involvement in it, even if only as passive beneficiaries. Women’s anger challenges men to acknowledge attempts to trivialize oppression with “I was only kidding." And women’s anger is unacceptable to men who look to women to take care of them, to prop up their need to feel in control, and to support them in their competition with other men. When women are less than gracious and good-humored about their own oppression, men often feel uncomfortable, embarrassed, at a loss, and therefore vulnerable." –Allan G. Johnson
"From the dawning of time, women have been blessed with a unique moral compass—the ability to distinguish right from wrong. This gift is enhanced in those who make and keep covenants. And it diminishes in those who willfully ignore the commandments of God. …my dear sisters, your ability to discern truth from error, to be society’s guardians of morality, is crucial in these latter days. And we depend upon you to teach others to do likewise. Let me be very clear about this: if the world loses the moral rectitude of its women, the world will never recover.." -President Russell M. Nelson, LDS Women's Conference 2019
"God is for men and religion is for women." ~Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.” ~Sherman Alexie
"He who marries a beautiful woman needs more than two eyes." ~English Proverb
“Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it." ~Evan Esar
"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians." ~John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
"I am enough. I am full of sparkle and of compassion. I genuinely want to make the world a better place. I love hard. I practice kindness. I am not afraid of the truth. I am loyal, adventurous, supporting, and surprising. I am a woman. I am enough. I make mistakes, but I own them and I learn from them. And sometimes I make a lot of mistakes. But I am enough." ~Molly Mahar
“I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.” ~Maya Angelou
"I'm 72 and my perfect age is now." ~Diana, Balłet Dancer
"I believe that a woman who leaves it up to the imagination is a whole lot sexier than those who just show it off." ~MaddHatter
“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” ~Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
"I have been many women in my lifetime.
I have been the protector and the provider,
I have been the lover and the fighter,
but the woman within I value the most will always be the survivor."
-S.L. Heaton
"I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out." ~Diane von Furstenberg
"I like a woman that can stand up and be strong." ~Peter Maurice Ware
"I really think—at any age—it's learning to be comfortable in your own skin. If women would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great gift we could give ourselves. What makes you the most attractive is self-confidence. That's what people see." ~Cindy Crawford on Body Image
"I think being a woman, by itself, the very fact that you are a woman is a gift of God which all of us must appreciate.... The origin of a child is a mother and is a woman. And a woman is the one who shares the love and shows a man, what love, caring and sharing is all about. That is the essence of a woman." ~Sushmita Sen, Miss Universe 1994
"I think we grow up as girls having to deal with a lot of oppressive beauty myths. And Anne is a girl who fails by all standards of what is acceptable and beautiful. She's not pretty. She's not rich. She has no parents. But through sheer exercise of will she makes the world understand how beautiful she is. It's her specialness, her ability to transform how people perceive her, that audiences, particularly girls, want to believe in." ~Megan Follows on her character, Anne Shirley
"I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been." ~William Golding
"If a woman wants something, she’ll climb a mountain to get it." ~Anon
"If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong. I am invincible. I am Woman." ~Helen Reddy
"If we can send a man to the moon, then why don't we send a woman?" ~Kylie Bax
"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning." ~Aristoteles Onassis
"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself;all that runs over will be yours." ~Charles Caleb Colton
"If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family." ~Ruby Manikan (20th century) Indian Church Leader
"If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman." ~Margaret Thatcher
"Intuition is the treasure of a woman's psyche. It is like a divining instrument and like a crystal through which one can see with uncanny interior vision." ~Estelle Cortes
"It is a wonderful advantage to a man in every pursuit of avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman." ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music.” ~Honoré de Balzac
"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs." ~from Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) by Thomas Hardy (Everyman's Library)
"It is every woman's dream to feel loved and secure in the heart and arms of the man she loves." ~Leah C. Dancel, 7 July 2014
"It’s no surprise that women who are married with children are stressed. After all, they have to play some roles as a mother and wife: cook, doctor, teacher, maid, event planner, and so much more. But, a recent survey found that nearly half of women find their husbands more stressful than their kids." ~LLL
"It's not a woman's responsibility to make a man a better person." ~Curious Mind Magazine
"It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too." ~Lillian Bell
"It's the innerlining of a woman's personality that beauty counts." ~Esther Bustamante
"LADIES: There's absolutely nothing wrong with being or feeling sexy but don't try so hard to be sexy that You end up taking off your clothes. Keep your clothes on. Don't let your private parts that deserve to be seen by only your partner be seen by everyone. Find better ways of making yourself look beautiful." ~Emotional Filmtricks
"Let every woman become so cultivated and refined in intellect, that her taste and judgment will be respected...so unassuming and unambitious, that collision and competition will be banished...then, the fathers, the husbands, and the sons, will find an influence thrown around them, to which they will yield not only willingly but proudly." ~Catherine Beecher (1800-1878)
"Let's be women who storm the gates of Heaven with prayers upon prayers." ~Wendy Pope ( Ephesians 6:18)
"Love a man who can sense your sadness in your smile, hear your voice in your silence and feel your love in your anger." ~Darkblue Skye
"Love makes of the wisest man a fool, and of the most foolish woman, a sage." ~Moritz (Moses) Gottlieb Saphir
“Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.” ~Helen Gurley Brown
"Never underestimate a woman. A loud voice of a man may threaten a woman but the silence of a woman can shake the consciousness of a man." ~Aarti Khurana
"Never underestimate a woman who has nothing more than a suitcase and a dream. She may not have a big home or a big car or a big diamond. But she has the power to leave the past and start again." ~Abeer Fahim
"Never underestimate a woman who quietly finds takes her time to find her strength after heartbreak. She will emerge with a power that will leave you amazed." ~Abeer Fahim
“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt (The Beauty of a Woman)
"Nothing is more impressive than a woman who is secure in the unique way God made her." ~from GodFruits.com
"Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men. I wonder we women stand it as well as we do." ~Mrs. Allonby from "A Woman of No Importance" by Oscar Wilde
"Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that he is beautiful." ~Sophia Loren
“Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive” ~Euripides, Medea
"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother." ~Lin Yutang
“Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.” ~Terry Tempest Williams
"One is not born a woman. One becomes a woman." ~Simone de Beauvoir
"One of the few things (maybe the only thing) in the world that can bring down the ego of an arrogant woman is a cockroach." ~Jyoti Menon
"One of the great gifts of literature is that it allows us to see the world through the eyes of another, and in doing so, sometimes we end up learning a thing or two about ourselves, or about the person we would like to be. For many women, Anne inspired them to believe in themselves and know what they were capable of and what they were worth. Anne showed us how to love ourselves and to encourage others to do the same." ~Katie Bull, Sullivan Entertainment (Anne of Green Gables)
"Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles." ~Carol P. Christ
"Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it." ~Yves Saint-Laurent
"Raise good men. Raise strong women. Please. The world needs them, now more than ever." ~Billy Flynn (from Nicer Down Under, FB)
"She didn’t know who would love or who would stay so she left them all away.” ~Anon
"She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe." -Orison Swett Marden
"She feels so close, but when I reach out my hand, she's not there. But still, even if I can't reach her, part of her will always be in my heart. For a brief moment, we breathed the same air and looked up the same sky. If we can remember that, then we will be with each other no matter how far apart we are. //For now, I'll just keep on running. If I set my goals way out there, then someday, I should be close enough and reach out, and touch what I'm chasing after." ~Shiro Emiya, from the anime hit series, "Fate/Stay Night"
"She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water." ~Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
"She has the mindset of a Queen, and a heart of a warrior. She is everything all at once and too much for anyone who doesn't deserve her. She is you." ~R. H. S
"She's got eyes of innocence. The face of an angel. A personality of a dreamer and a smile that hides more pain than you can imagine." ~Anon
"She hides all her problems behind a smile. Behind her smile is a world of pain and hurt. You think you know her, but you really have no idea." ~Anon
"She’s the woman that believes that what comes around goes around. The one that hopes for a better day. The one that won't give up on you. She's the woman that's unlike the rest. The one that spent her days smiling, and her nights crying. She's the woman that would love to be loved. The one that looks so damn strong, but feels so weak. She's the woman that picks herself up every time she falls." ~Anon
“She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.” ~Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth
"She stood in the spotlight. But when she turned around, my jaw dropped." ~TheMetaPicture dot com on a World Skipping Rope Champion (2014)
"Some women are lost in the fire. Some women are built from it." ~Bliss Warrior Charms
"Sometimes a man's purpose to a woman's life is to help her become a better woman .... for another man." ~Anon
“Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.” ~Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke." ~Willa Cather (1873-1947)
"Strong women aren't simply born. They are made by the storms they walk through." ~Anon
"Strong women don't play victim, don't point fingers. They stand and they deal." ~Mandy Hale
"Strong women know how to take a lot of pain and strong men know how to heal it." ~from The Joy of Dad
"Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic." ~Rosalind Russell (1911-1976)
"Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison." ~Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
"The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation on earth." ~ Jimmy Carter
"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The average women is more graceful than she realises. Smarter than she lets on. And more beautiful than she has been led to believe." ~Anon
"The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart the place where love resides." ~Anon
"The cause of women’s emancipation is part of our national struggle against outdated practices and prejudices. It is a struggle that demands equal effort from both men and women alike." ~Nelson Mandela in an Address to the National Conference of Commitments: Gender and Women Empowerment, Kempton Park, South Africa, 23 February 1996, Living The Legacy
"The circles of women around us weave invisible nets of love that carry us when we're weak and sing with us when we are strong." ~Stark
“The coping-stone of every woman’s education is love.” ~Abraham Dyson, The Golden Butterfly by Walter Besant and James Rice classic novel published in 1887
"The goddess doesn’t enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened to us in the past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope." ~Marianne Williamson,
"The greatest tyrants over women are women." ~William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
"The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning." ~George Sand
"The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life." ~Lord Henry from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
“The real problem, the greatest one of all, is to make women younger. To make them seem youthful. Stop this and their way of seeing life changes. They become much more cheerful.” ~Coco Chanel
"The reason why other women look attractive is because someone is taking good care of them. Grass is always green where it is watered. Instead of drooling over the green grass on the other side of the fence, work on yours and water it regularly. Any man can admire a beautiful woman, but it takes a true gentleman to make a woman admirable and beautiful." ~Emotional Filmtricks. To Husbands and Boyfriends, on Love is a Beautiful Thing
"The role of a woman as a human being remains her most essential role in life. She must confirm, in her actions, that she is a person of reason, a person of will, a person of affection, and a person who has a mission to carry out and she should prove that she has the ability to take part in life." ~Unattributed
"The role of women in many communities around the world is that of caretakers and of educators, so ensuring that women globally are given the proper tools to persevere that they can then pass along to their children and grandchildren is one of the greatest gifts that could be given to a community caught in a cycle of poverty." ~Katie Bull, Sullivan Entertainment (Anne of Green Gables)
"The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!" ~from "Three and—an Extra" by Rudyard Kipling
"The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organisation but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights." ~Gloria Steinem
"The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.” ~C. JoyBell C.
"The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself, and shine among those who never believed she could." ~Anon
"The sweetest noise on earth, a woman’s tongue; A string which hath no discord." ~Bryan Procter
"The test of a woman is how well she is able to think about what she feels." ~Mary McDowell
"The woman's vision is deep reaching - the man's far reaching." ~Betty Grable
"The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God." ~Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1855)
"The woman who does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet." ~Mohadesh Najumi
The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God." ~Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1855)
"The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies." ~Anon
"The women are closest to the land - we need them to become our leaders. And as men, we are servants and protectors of Mother Earth. Only in this harmony will we find balance." ~François Paulette, Dene traditionalist
"There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats." ~Pablo Picasso
"There comes a day, somewhere in the middle of every woman’s life, when Mother Nature herself stands behind us and wraps her arms around our shoulders, whispering 'It’s time'. 'You have taken enough now. It’s time to stop growing up, stop growing older and start growing wiser - and wilder. There are adventures still waiting on you and this time, you will enjoy them with the vision of wisdom and the companionship of hindsight, and you will really let go. It’s time to stop the madness of comparison and the ridicule of schedule and conformity and start experiencing the joys that a life, free of containment and guilt, can bring.' She will shake your shoulders gently and remind you that you’ve done your bit. You’ve given too much, cared too much, you’ve suffered too much. You’ve bought the book as it were and worn the t-shirt. Worse, you’ve worn the chains and carried the weight of a burden far too heavy for your shoulders. 'It’s time', she will say. 'Let it go, really let it go and feel the freedom of the fresh, clean spaces within you. Fill them with discovery, love and laughter. Fill yourself so full you will no longer fear what is ahead and instead you will greet each day with the excitement of a child.' She will remind you that if you choose to stop caring what other people think of you and instead of caring what you think of you, that you will experience a new era of your life you never dreamed possible. ‘It’s time’ she will say… 'to write the ending, or new beginning, of your own story.'" ~Donna Ashworth
“There is in every woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.” ~Washington Irving
"There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise." ~W.E.B. Du Bois
"There is no limit as to what we, as women can accomplish." ~Anon
"There's no such things as an ugly woman. There are those who have not realised their full potential." ~Caroline Cox
"There’s that one type of hug that a woman loves. That tight hug where you put some strength into it, using your both arms, not just one. The one where a woman could bury her face in a man’s chest, that makes her feel safe and secure, that makes her feel warm on the outside and inside, that makes her feel wanted, the one that lasts for awhile, and the one that would give her the impression that you care." ~Anon
"There should be more then one day to celebrate the women who raised us." ~Anon
"There was so much more to her than met the eye. She had the strength of a hundred people, and the heart of a thousand." ~Danielle Steele
"This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths. Nor, tragically, does its influence stop at the walls of the church, mosque, synagogue or temple. This discrimination, unjustifiably attributed to a Higher Authority, has provided a reason or excuse for the deprivation of women's equal rights across the world for centuries. At its most repugnant, the belief that women must be subjugated to the wishes of men excuses slavery, violence, forced prostitution, genital mutilation and national laws that omit rape as a crime. But it also costs many millions of girls and women control over their own bodies and lives, and continues to deny them fair access to education, health, employment and influence within their own communities.... The truth is that male religious leaders have had -- and still have -- an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter." ~JIMMY CARTER, "Losing My Religion for Equality"
"To be happy with a man you have to understand him a lot and love him less , but...to be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and never ever try to understand her !." ~Bhalchandra
“To be pregnant is to be vitally alive, thoroughly woman, and distressingly inhabited. Soul and spirit are stretched – along with body – making pregnancy a time of transition, growth, and profound beginnings.” ~Anne Christian Buchanan
"To find true joy and peace within my life, I had to get to know the woman who wanted to feel these things--I had to get to know myself." ~Robin Korth
"To know the progress of a nation, look at its women." ~French Proverb
"To the woman reading this with a restless soul and an aching heart I want you to know that sometimes you have to break down in order to break through." ~R. H. Sin
"Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days." ~Paulo Coelho
"Today, men are really lucky. In the name of all lucky men (I include myself, too... hehe) I thank all caring, sharing, cuddling, helping, motivating, inspiring, protecting, hugging, kissing, and loving women we have in our life!!! Thank you for being so patient with us." ~Deniz Inan, 8 March 2015 on International Women's Day
"Too many women continue to bear the brunt of social and economic deprivation, in the rural as well as urban areas. Domestic violence, rape, abuse of women remain disgraceful blots on the reputation of a country that is called a miracle nation in other respects." ~Nelson Mandela speaking at a Dinner celebrating Women's Month, Johannesburg Country Club, Johannesburg, South Africa, 25 August 2003, LivingTheLegacy
"Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. ...." ~Julie Delpy
"What a fabulous bunch we are. We’ve known love and life. Had some kids and husbands or not. Lost some people, gained some new ones. Overcome illness and battled through. We’re still here helping each other and learning from each other, cheeering up the sad and congratulating the happy ones. Sharing a few jokes along the way. " ~Pamela May Moore, Women Over60 Australia Friendship Group
"What men perceived as weak on women is actually their strength." ~Melanie Avergonzago
"What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary." ~Jody Williams
"When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier." ~Diane Von Furstenberg
"...when a woman has secure rights to the land that she tills, multiple benefits often follow, such as increased status within the household, better health outcomes for women and their families, improved household nutrition, and increased incomes." ~Empower Women
"When a woman is loved correctly, she becomes ten times the woman she was before. " ~Reyna Biddy
"When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious." ~Marianne Williamson from Sisters of Serenity and Sobriety
"When a woman knows, and works towards making her home, a peaceful and quiet place, a castle where her man will feel safe and comfortable to stay in always, The atmosphere in this home will make the man to cherish every moment he spends in his home with his queen, and anytime he is away, he will always longingly look forward to the time he will get the chance to step foot in his home again to be with his queen." ~Marriage is Beautiful via Kalu Igwe Kalu
"While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman's gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we can't distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace." ~Mariella Frostrup
"With the man, the world is his heart; with the woman, the heart is her world." ~Betty
"WOMAN... created to bear, nurture, protect and sustain the future of the world." ~Lourdes De Las Cagigas
“Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Almighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and moving toward perfection. God created woman as symbol of His own beauty and to give solace to her partner and her family.” ~Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
"Woman is the light of God." ~Rumi
"Women are always at the front of revolutions." ~Buthayna Kamel
“Women are complete with or without a mate, with or without a child. We get to decide for ourselves what is beautiful when it comes to our bodies ... We don’t need to be married or mothers to be complete. We get to determine our own ‘happily ever after’ for ourselves.” ~Jennifer Aniston
"Women are generally beautiful until they start attacking another woman." ~Chai Abu Dhabi
"Women are just women but we can't deny their charm and beauty. Erratic, emotional, unexplainable, but then again...they are the love. The colors of human history..women. They are powerful. They are leaders." ~Joel Pelandiana
"Women are like flowers. One woman and one flower inspire men. Many flowers and many women in one place cause a headache." ~Moritz (Moses) Gottlieb Saphir
"Women are of superior kind. They endure all kinds of pain including that of giving birth and also the pain that men gave them." ~Lindy Pujante
"Women are pressured into doing things they don't necessarily want to do in the name of art, marketing, cash, and even empowerment. And women who refuse to take part get labelled as 'difficult'." ~Tova Leigh, FB, 31 December 2016
"WOMEN ARE PRICELESS. A lot of men act like they are doing a woman a favor by asking for her hand in marriage but let's think about this. She changes her name, changes her home, leaves her family, moves in with you, builds a home with you, gets pregnant for You and bears children for you.
Pregnancy destroys her body. She gets fat. Almost give up in the labour room due to the unexplainable pains of childbirth. Even the kids she delivers bear your name till the day she dies.
Everything she does benefits you. So who is really doing who a favour? Dear Men, appreciate your woman today because it is not easy to be a Woman. Being a woman is Priceless!!!! Too bad so many women of today don't even know their values. God Bless The Women!" ~from Emotional Filmtricks
"Women are sensitive; they worry and care way more than they should, but that's what makes their love so strong." ~Anon
"Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough, and (2) Too much." ~Ann Landers
"Women get more beautiful as they grow older. Not less. Female youth is only prized in modern culture because it doesn't represent as much of a threat spiritually to anyone who is frightened of divine feminine power. As women grow and mature, they call in stronger forces of sacred feminine wisdom. They vibrate with the creative power of their stories. They are more of a force to be reckoned with. They see more, know more, feel more. They put up with a lot less bullshit. When women are trained into thinking there is something fundamentally wrong with getting older, and are coerced into spending money, energy and power investing in 'slowing the signs of ageing', an enormous vault of divine love is lost. Just think what would happen if all the women in the world started loving themselves even more with every year that passed. Perhaps a total revolution would occur." ~Yogesh Kumar
"Women glow differently when they're loved right and treated properly." ~Anon
"Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time." ~Virginia Woolf
"Women have it in their power to create moments of magnetic attraction that can transform a simple meeting into a relationship." ~David Wygant
"Women have served all these centuries as looking -glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size." ~Virgin Woolf
"Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul." ~Coretta Scott King (1927 - American Civil Rights Activist, Writer)
"Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed." ~Cornelia Otis Skinner
"Women live longer when surrounded by nature." ~House Beautiful Magazine
“Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.” ~Barbara de Angelis
"Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable centre of a whole web of human relationships." ~Anne Morrow Lindberg
"Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together--and they call the result intuition." ~Agatha Christie (1891-1975)
"Women should be empowered in everyway. Do not get sucked in by neoliberalism to focus only on the money to enslave women to add even more burden on them. Men have to take responsibility for their failings as well." ~Lee Tan on empowering women
"Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible." ~Margaret Mead
“Women who compliment other women genuinely are just a whole different breed.” ~Anon
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." ~Timothy Leary
'Women's virtue is man's greatest invention." ~Cornelia Otis Skinner
"You are a strong woman who has overcome battles most can't even imagine." ~Lessons Learned in Life
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." ~Anon
"You may laugh and call it crap but in some ways the women of the 1950s and 60s were very happy and satisfied with their lives. I was one, only going back to work when my children were older. That was the best of both worlds and I would not change anything about it. We didn’t have a lot but were happy to wait for the material things. So, each to their own." ~Marie Deer McMullen
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RELATED QUOTES
“A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.” ~Victoria Secunda
"A grievous fault of 'feminism' is its failure and its outright refusal to discuss real issues one at a time in the context of real life. Frankly, 'feminism' is, in reality, little more than schoolyard whining writ large and somehow given centre stage in our society - to its near demise." ~The Grappler, YOUR LIFE CHOICES on Emma Watson's speech at UN on FEMINISM (September 2014)
"A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them." ~J. G. Holland
"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle." ~Edna Ferber
"Bridesmaid today may eventually catch the bouquet." ~Ann-marie Marshall
"Do not judge her by her past. Gift her the peaceful future that she deserves. Hold her hands against the world, which knows only to judge. Give her the love that she always yearned for." ~Avish Ramgolam
"I am a world of uncertainties disguised as a girl." ~Nicole Lyons
"I am not interested in being a Barbie doll and turning myself into a sausage for the next 20 years. I want to follow actresses like Helen Mirren and Judi Dench who have lines on their faces and aren't afraid of playing their age." ~Kim Cattrall
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman." ~Virginia Woolf
"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave." ~Martin Luther
"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action." ~Mohandas Gandhi
"She is like a wildflower; beautiful, fierce, and free." ~Anon
"She was broken but never hopeless; alone but never lonely. Her eyes reflected pain but projected courage. She was a beautiful paradox." ~Deep Life Quotes
"The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her." ~Bob Marley
"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough." ~George Edward Moore from Mastering Relationship With Love
“The more I have spoken about feminism, the more I have realised that fighting for women’s rights has too often become synonymous with ‘man-hating.’ If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop. For the record, feminism, by definition, is ‘the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes’.” ~Emma Watson on her speech at UN on Women's Rights and Feminism (2014)
"The most beautiful part to loving a guarded girl is this: when she lets you in, it's not because she needs you. She stopped needing people a long time ago. It's because she wants you, and that is the purest love of them all." ~Lessons Learned in Life
"The smallest of her actions and every word she whispered were like watercolorS on a canvas, unpredictable, yet beautiful and graceful." ~Anon
"Think before you speak. The female brain works on a different wavelength!" ~Rafael Alunan III
"We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother needs our help, she needs our prayers. We need to educate the women of the world that prayer works." ~Grandmother Agnes Baker-Pilgrim
"We must be honest and open about the power relationships between men and women in our society, and we must help build a more enabling and supportive environment that puts the role of women centre stage in this struggle. Each one of us – sister and brother, mother and father, teacher and student, priest and parishioner, manager and worker, presidents and prime ministers – must add our voice to this call for action." ~Nelson Mandela speaking during the 46664 Concert, Fancourt, George, South Africa, 19 March 2005
"You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing." ~Marie Carmichael Stopes
"You'd be surprised by how many times a woman sits in her car, or in the shower, or in the laundry room, or at the sink and quickly cries because she is so stressed. Because when she shows her face again, she looks untouched and unbothered, manages to sport a beautiful smile and carries on like she's fine. Women are some of the most resilient creatures. Appreciate them." ~Tamaya Elizabeth
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From Queenisms TM
"Her choices were to stay the same or walk through her fear and become the woman she was meant to be. She decided to start walking." ~QueenismsTM
"Her story had so many ups and downs it would have knocked a lesser woman for a loop. Yet she chose to see herself as the heroine of that story and not the victim because she knew her true story was not over, yet." ~Queenisms
"The grass was not greener on the other side. She knew because she'd looked. Turned out happiness was a practice, not a place. So she made the choice to practice every day." ~Queenisms™
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OTHERS:
JOURNEYS
The smell after rain.
The feeling after crying.
Grass or sand under my feet.
The reward that sometimes comes from trying.
The sound of a second chance.
That freedom when I no longer cared what everybody thinks.
Journeys by myself in quiet.
Watching the grey sky open up and turn pink.
The mystical warmth of a blazing bonfire.
Deep soul-filled conversations at 4am.
Tea stained books and the scent on their pages.
Strutting wild, free and crazy with my friends.
The blue line of the horizon in the far sea.
Flights of birds dancing above my head.
Butterflies and moths at any hour.
That sacred whisper with the moon just before bed.
As she continued to write of the things she daydreamed of and loved,
She felt warm inside and the sky seemed to open up above.
She was finally coming to see that life was a love affair.
How tender could she be with herself, how much could she show self-care?
That had become the new excitement and gentle feeling in her life.
She was finally realising she had incredible power
and could let go of a lot of her strife.
Life was not about achievements,
or about striving to get a pat on the back
from those around her.
It was about loving herself so much so
that it was replicated in the things
and people that surrounded her.
There need be no more striving.
She just had to start making the best choices
that tended to her heart to stop all the draining.
When relationships died it was time to let them go.
She was starting to see that her health of heart was really
the meaning of going with the flow.
She no longer wanted to stress
and now the time had come to let her hair down
so she could breathe
And enjoy this gift of life and truly follow after the things she believed.
There was no point in merely existing and denying all that made her tick.
It had been so long since she lived for herself.
No longer rushing to tick all the boxes and get everything done so quick.
As she pondered on herself
and the things that made her feel alive,
she sighed deeply from her womb,
knowing now to come were the best days of her life.
by S.C Lourie
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LIVING EULOGY
"She Danced.
She Sang.
She Took.
She Gave.
She Loved.
She Created.
She Dissented.
She Enlivened.
She Saw.
She Grew.
She Sweated.
She Changed.
She Learned.
She Laughed.
She Shed her skin.
She Bled on the pages of her days.
She walked through walls.
She LIVED with Intention."
~Mary Anne Radmacher
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