Special Quotations
Military Quotations
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.
The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.
You don't just luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
I don't know that there are any shortcuts to doing a good job.
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us.
I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.
There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
The liberated woman is not that modern doll who wears make-up and tasteless clothes....The liberated woman is a person who believes that she is as human as a man. The liberated woman does not insist on her freedom so as to abuse it.
Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.
If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.
Dat man ober dar say dat women needs to be helped into carriages and lifted ober ditches, and to hab de best place everywhar. Nobody eber helps me into carriages, or ober mud-puddles, or gibs me any best place! And ain't I a woman! Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed, and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man--when I could get it--and bear de lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen chilern, and seen 'em mos' all sold into slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.
Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.
Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
To reclaim our past and insist that it become a part of our human history is the task that lies before us. For the future requires that women, as well as men, shape the world destiny.
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.P
Women's Quotes
A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she adjust to prejudice and discrimination.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about reform.
Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
It is not power that corrupts, but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts.
Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed-upon myth of its conquerors.
Quotes cards
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress, you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has!
For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?
Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity--these three--and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?