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Entry tags:	quotes, women

circa 31 May 2004
spam gave me quotes from women:

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
— Marie Curie (1867-1934)

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder...he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
— Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964), The Sense of Wonder

Since when was genius found respectable?
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), Aurora Leigh Book vi

Surgeons must be very careful,
When they take the knife!
underneath their fine incisions,
stirs the Culprit — Life!
— Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange—my youth.
— Sara Teasdale (1884-1933), "Wisdom"

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you, kid. Let's go."
— Maya Angelou

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
— Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)

It will never rain roses: when we want
To have more roses we must plant more trees.
— George Eliot (1819-1880), "The Spanish Gypsy" book III

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
— Colette (1873-1954), Mes Apprentissages

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.
— Shashi Deshpande

...it is not so important to know every thing, as to know the exact value of every thing, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.
— Hannah More (1745-1833), Hints Towards Forming the Character of a Young Princess

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
— Agnes Repplier (1855-1950), Americans and Others

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
— Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955), Building a Better World: Essays and Selected Documents

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
— Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
— Anna Freud (1895-1982), The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
— Isak Dinesen (1885-1962), Seven Gothic Tales

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
— Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948), letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1919

...the lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
— Anita Brookner in Novelists in Interview

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
— Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), Everybody's Autobiography

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
— Daisy Bates (1863-1951)

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.
— Kathleen Norris

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?
— Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997)

I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.
— Adrienne E. Gusoff

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
— Isadora Duncan (1877-1927)

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
— Helen Hayes (1900-1993)

You're never too old to become younger.
— Mae West (1893-1980)

He who hesitates is a damned fool.
— Mae West

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
— Lily Tomlin (1939-)

All my life I've wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.
— Jane Wagner / Lily Tomlin

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
— Phyllis Diller

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
— Phyllis Diller

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.
— Marie Dressler (1868-1934), The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
— Joan Rivers in L.A. Times, 10 May 1974

A man in love is incomplete until he has married—and then he's finished.
— Zsa Zsa Gabor in Newsweek, 28 March 1960

My theory is that if you look confident, you can pull anything off—even if you have no clue what you're doing.
— Jessica Alba