“What’s your favorite role in life?”
One of my favorite questions to ask someone. More than the answer is the thought process that I enjoy. It not only offers a unique insight into the person, but it also allows me to connect with him/her on a deeper level. After learning their answer, it’s only fair that I answer the question myself. My answer is…WOMAN.
In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, here is a list of 50 of my favorite quotes penned about and/or by women. Do you have a favorite?
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. | Albert Einstein
“Contributions of women all around the globe in making the world a better place are greatly cherished. The great African women have a role and responsibility towards progress of Africa in realising a balance in; God, family and good life as essential elements to a fulfilling human existence. | Don Santo
There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women. | Madeleine Albright
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. | Coco Chanel
The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights. | Gloria Steinem
Well-behaved women seldom make history. | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Keep your heels, head, and standards high. | Coco Chanel
Always be careful of what you hear about a woman. Rumors come from either a man who can’t have her or a woman who can’t compete with her. |Unknown
Here’s to strong women: may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them. | Unknown
Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings. | Cheris Kramarae
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water. | Eleanor Roosevelt
The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. | Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can hear the roar of women’s silence. | Thomas Sankara
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. | Anaïs Nin
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. | Brigham Young
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. | Nora Ephron
When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch. | Bette Davis
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce. | Mark Twain
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. |Audrey Hepburn
I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. | Madonna
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction. | Oscar Wilde
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. | Coco Chanel
As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world. | Virginia Woolf
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. | Marilyn Monroe
She believed she could, so she did. | Unknown
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. | Roseanne Barr
Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. | Candace Bushnell
I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. | Marilyn Monroe
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. | Yves Saint-Laurent
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. She is less likely to have an agenda than a young woman—no biological clock tick-tocking beside her lover’s bed, no campaign to lead him to the altar, no rescue fantasies. The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of her life, despite failures and false starts. | Gail Sheehy
The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the world. | Charles Malik
Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live. | Anne Sweeney
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading. | Amy Poehler
Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength. | G.D. Anderson
When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it’s tradition. | Letty Cottin Pogrebin
You don’t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. | Jane Galvin Lewis
Little girls with dreams become women with a vision. | Unknown
Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman. | Coco Chanel
A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, ‘For a man, you’re kind of ignorant.’ | Anne Hathaway
I am a feminist. I’ve been female for a long time now. I’d be stupid not to be on own side. | Maya Angelou
‘What’s your favorite position?’ ‘CEO.’ | Lauren Conrad
Freedom cannot be achieved unless the women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression. | Nelson Mandela
Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror. | Byron Katie
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. | Joseph Conrad
Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. | Lois Wyse
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. | Susan B. Anthony
One is not born, but rather becomes a woman. | Simone de Beauvoir
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. | Maya Angelou
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. | Margaret Thatcher
Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world. | Hillary Clinton
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