Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doris Lessing

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

Doris Lessing

Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.

Doris Lessing

All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.

Donald Evans

Miracle woman ... Your mouth is wine, and all your tender flesh An easeful meadow for my weariness.

Clive James

You can never get a woman to sit down and listen to a drum solo.

Angela Braly

That's a good question. I think there should be many other women CEO s. It feels natural to be a CEO of WellPoint, and part of the reason may be that women may be drawn to healthcare as a profession. Women make 70 percent of all healthcare decisions. Women are currently available-ready, willing, and able-to be CEOs of major Fortune 50 or 500 companies. And I expect them to emerge as such over the days, weeks, and months ahead.

Angela Braly

Of the 50 largest companies in the United States, you are the only woman CEO. Why?

Anatole France

Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

Anne Hathaway

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

Anita Roddick

If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

Christopher Marlowe

All women are ambitious naturallie

Christopher Marlowe

Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.

Christopher Morley

How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

Christopher Morley

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

Amy Carmichael

There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

Anne Spencer

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross.

Anne Tyler

Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.

Angela Kinsey

Here's the thing: I'm not in shape.

Angela Davis

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

Anne Roiphe

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

Anne Sexton

Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You'll move off.

Anna Howard Shaw

Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.

Anna Howard Shaw

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

Anna Julia Cooper

tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest that the cry of one-half the human family be stifled. ... The world has had to limp along with the wobbling gait and one-sided hesitancy of a man with one eye. Suddenly the bandage is removed from the other eye and the whole body is filled with light. It sees a circle where before it saw a segment. The darkened eye restored, every member rejoices with it.

Anna Julia Cooper

woman's cause is one and universal ...

Anita Brookner

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Anita Brookner

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Anita Brookner

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

Anita Brookner

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

Anita Loos

I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

Andre Maurois

Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.