Inspirational quotations of famous and not so famous women
I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I’d just been myself.
–Brittany Renee
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
–Lauren Bacall
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes.”
–Clare Boothe Luce
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
–Roseanne Barr
I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. -Madonna Ciccone
“You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don’t find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.”
—Jane Fonda
You don’t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. -Jane Galvin Lewis
Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
–Lois Wyse
“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
“As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.”
– Joan Baez
“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“I don’t understand why people aren’t a little more generous with each other.”
–Marilyn Monroe
“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.”
— Lucy Larcom, American poet (1826-1893)
“You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who cannot repay you.”
— Ruth Smeltzer
“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
—Helen Keller
“There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.”
—Susan B. Anthony
I think it’s about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we’ve been voting for boobs long enough. -Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate
“People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me.”
—Princess Diana
Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage. -Author Unknown
I believe that what a woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
–Anne Morrow Lindbergh
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.-Bette Davis
…Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.”
–Mary Lou Retton
“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.”
–Margaret Thatcher