It has been women who have
breathed gentleness and care into
the hard progress of humankind.

Queen Elizabeth II
   
Because I have a heart for God I also have a heart for women.  As I hear
their stories, I realize so many feel themselves to be inadequate.  What a
joy it is to believe them into doing those things they never believed they could
do and being the people they never believed they could be.

Jill Briscoe

      
A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create,
nurture, and transform. A woman knows that nothing can come
to fruition without light. Let us call upon woman's voice and
woman's heart to guide us in this age of planetary transformation.

Diane Mariechild
  
Women are never what they seem to be.
There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden.
Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.

Erma Bombeck
   

Don't shut yourself up in a bandbox because you are a woman,
but understand what is going on, educate yourself to take your
part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.

Louisa May Alcott

    

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
   
    

  

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the
real battles that took place to get women where they are
today in this country. I don't know how much history
young women today know about those battles.

Sandra Day O'Connor
   

A woman can't be, until
a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites
that girls are, so different
from us, all their fancies,
their illusions, their flower
world, the dreams they live in.

Christina Stead

   

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

Simone de Beauvoir
   

In every girl is a goddess.

Francesca Lia Block
There cannot be too many glorious women.

Marianne Williamson

Women are the architects of society.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Where there is a woman, there is magic.

Ntozake Shange

   
It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize
that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.

Pearl S. Buck
    

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine,
for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Rainer Maria Rilke
   
I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman
may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

Arthur Conan Doyle
  
   

I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one--
but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.

Elizabeth Blackwell
   

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Women share with the men the need for personal success, even the
taste for power, and no longer are willing to satisfy those needs through
the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.

Elizabeth Dole

   

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving
herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
   

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity.
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex
.
Katharine Graham
   
I've always believed that one woman's success
can only help another woman's success.

Gloria Vanderbilt
   

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture
of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

Betty Friedan
   

   
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

Gertrude Stein
  

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need
woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
   

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Alexandre Dumas
    
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears,
The figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be see from in her eyes,
Because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Audrey Hepburn
   

I feel there is something unexplored about a woman that only a woman can explore.

Georgia O'Keeffe
    

If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength
of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply:
To the superiority of their women.

Alexis De Tocqueville

   
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.

Benjamin Spock
   

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Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

Dee Dee Myers
   
A Woman's Viewpoint

Age 8:  Looks at herself and sees Cinderella

Age 15:  Looks at herself and sees Cinderella/Sleeping Beauty/cheerleader

Age 20:  Looks at herself and sees too fat/too thin, too short/too tall, too straight/too curly, decides she doesn't have time to fix it and goes out

Age 40:  Looks at herself and sees too fat/too thin, too short/too tall, too straight/too curly and says, "At least I'm clean," and goes out

Age 50:  Looks at herself, says "I am," and goes wherever she wants to

Age 60:  Looks at herself and remembers all the people who can't even see themselves in the mirror anymore, goes out and conquers

Age 70:  Looks at herself, sees wisdom and laughter, and goes out to enjoy life

Age 80:  Doesn't even bother to look:  just puts on a red hat and goes out to be who she is

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