Quotes by Famous Women

Guest Author - Danielle Hollister

"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. "
-- Erica Jong
"Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!"
-- Erica Jong
"There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life."
-- Erica Jong
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
-- Janis Joplin
"I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person."
-- Barbara Jordan
"A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane."
-- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
"A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear."
-- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
"Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?"
-- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
"Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy."
-- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
"Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death."
-- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
"I am a woman above everything else."
-- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
"I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives."
-- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jackie, 1964
"But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?"
-- Clare Boothe Luce
"If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place."
-- Margaret Mead
"Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade."
-- Constance Baker Motley (First Black Woman in the U.S. to become a Federal Judge)
"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."
-- Dorothy Parker
"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb...and I'm also not blonde. "
-- Dolly Parton
"Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. "
-- Maryon Pearson
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. "
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. "
-- Gloria Steinem
"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"
-- Gloria Steinem
"Women are the architects of society."
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe
"We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home."
-- Rosalyn Sussman (Nobel Prize-winning medical physicist)
"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man - if you want anything done, ask a woman. "
-- Margaret Thatcher
"Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in you -- which tends to defend when attacked."
-- Margaret Thatcher
"Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. "
-- Lily Tomlin
"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
-- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success."
-- Gloria Vanderbilt
"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."
-- Martha Washington
"I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within."
-- Eudora Welty
"Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. "
-- Charlotte Whitton
"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."
-- Mary Wollstonecraft
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
-- Virginia Woolf
"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."
-- Virginia Woolf
"Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above."
-- Virginia Woolf
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
-- Virginia Woolf
"If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?"
-- Virginia Woolf
"Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself... And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself."
-- Virginia Woolf
"Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious."
-- Virginia Woolf
"Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the heath of their fame as men are, and speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it."
-- Virginia Woolf
"Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all."
-- Virginia Woolf
"Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the writer is communicating his experience with perfect fullness."
-- Virginia Woolf
"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."
-- Virginia Woolf
"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."
-- Virginia Woolf
"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
-- Virginia Woolf
"Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."
-- Virginia Woolf

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