Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beyonce Knowles

I embrace mistakes, they make you who you are.

Bernard Williams

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

Edith Stein

Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.

Edith Sitwell

Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

Edith Sitwell

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Edith Sitwell

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

Edith Wharton

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

Earl Wilson

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

Audrey Meadows

We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches.

Audrey Hepburn

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Audre Lorde

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.

Audre Lorde

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.

Denzel Washington

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Denise Levertov

I'll dig in into my days, having come here to live, not to visit. Grey is the price of neighboring with eagles, of knowing a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen.

Denise Levertov

If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening.

Edgar Degas

There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.

Eliza Coupe

TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Eve is a twofold mystery.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

Benjamin Spock

I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.

Carolyn See

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Agnes Repplier

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

Charlotte Bronte

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

Charles Dudley Warner

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

Charles Dudley Warner

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

Charlize Theron

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

Charlize Theron

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

Charles Lamb

Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?

Charlaine Harris

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

Charles Baudelaire

A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands, her bosom, her knees, her hair, her lithe and flowing clothes ... has acquired a delicacy of skin, a refinement of tone, a kind of androgyny without which the toughest and most virile of geniuses remains, when it comes to artistic perfection, an incomplete being.