Famous Female's Quotes & Sayings

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I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
Marilyn Monroe

WesternNight

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
- Charlotte Bronte

And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well.
- Barbara Bush

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

Ickle Magoo

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

- Roseanne Barr

Storminateacup

Given the right shoes, a woman can conquer the world.

I'm not sure who said it but she was definately a smart lady

EverEvolving

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.


I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Helen Keller

Teyla Emmagan

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Eleanor Roosevelt

confuseddotcom

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible!'
Audrey Hepburn


Every drop in the ocean counts.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
Yoko Ono

Giselle

I'd rather be looked over than overlooked.

Mae West.

LegacyUser

“Tell him I was too fúcking busy-- or vice versa.” - Dorothy Parker

WesternNight

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank

Ickle Magoo

Inside every older lady is a younger lady......wondering what the hell happened.
- Cora Harvey Armstrong


Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Blackhorse Slim

Forever is composed of nows.
Emily Dickinson

Little Acorn

Katharine Hepburn:
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun"


Mae West:
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try one I've never tried before"

"Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often"


Dolly Parton:
"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes, because I know I'm not dumb,
-and I also know I'm not blonde"


I particularly like the following one:

Louisa May Alcott:

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship"

Isard

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief!
-Annie Sullivan.

She's my soulmate, I think

confuseddotcom

Never go to bed mad, stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller


Lead me not into temptation, I can find the way myself.
Rita Mae Brown


I always say shopping is cheaper than a Psychiatrist.
Tammy Faye Bakker
(Ahhh, had always wondered why they call it Retail Therapy! )


Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high. :rolleyes:

Girls just want to have funds.
(A new Karaoke tune ladies, what ye think?! )

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies. (Love this one!! )
Adrienne E. Gusoff
(I'm likin' Adrienne Gusoff! )

pearLxx

You never find yourself until you face the truth.
-- Pearl Bailey

WindSock

Trust in yourself and you can achieve anything!

Lisa Lionheart

Acacia

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Robyn Davidson.

whittler

Patience is a virtue
Have it if you can
Always in a woman
Never in a man

Nhead

“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
Simone de Beauvoir

 "The law in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law”
 Maria Edgeworth

      “I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the
system.”
 Mary Robinson
 
     “In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.”
 Mary Robinson

 

Lady Chuckles

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

LittleBook

There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.

Madeleine K. Albright

They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.

Dorothy Parker

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Janis Joplin

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Diane Ackerman

cdaly_

LittleBook wrote: »

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Diane Ackerman

/me likes...

Giselle

LittleBook wrote: »

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Diane Ackerman

I've always said width is just as important as length. Generally speaking.;)


''There was a time when religion ruled the world. It was known as the Dark Ages''

Ruth Hurmence Green, author of 'Born Again Skeptic'.

Isard

whittler wrote: »

Patience is a virtue
Have it if you can
Always in a woman
Never in a man

Well I have very, very little patience:D

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
-Alexandra Ripley.

x Purple Pawprints x

Not sure who said this, one of my friends told me about it:

A woman has amazing strengths.
She can handle trouble and carry heavy burdens.
She holds happiness, love and opinions.
She smiles when she feels like screaming.
She sings when she feels like crying.
She cries when she's happy and laughs when she's afraid.
Her love is unconditional.

There's only one thing wrong with her - she sometimes forgets what she's worth.

dammitjanet

I know it's not exactly famous but my Granny always used to say "These things are sent to try us."
I always loved it, nothing ever seemed to bother her. She was, and still is, the strongest woman I know.

Da Shins Kelly

"I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time." ~ Mae West

LittleBook

cdaly_ wrote: »

/me likes...

Well, in a similar vein ... it's not specifically for women (although the cake and martini could indicate leaning ) and I've no idea who wrote it but I love it:

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid sideways into home base, chunk of chocolate cake in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO!!! What a ride!!!

Ickle Magoo

It's a great quote - is it not a take on a Hunter S Thompson line?

Giselle

''If you're going to be two-faced, at least make one of them pretty''.

*Marilyn Monroe.


''Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone''.

*Dorothy Parker

LittleBook

Ickle Magoo wrote: »

It's a great quote - is it not a take on a Hunter S Thompson line?

Well spotted Ickle!

I received it in an "inspirational e-mail piece o' crap", probably the only one of those kinds of e-mails that ever spoke to me.

But since you asked, I googled a bit on it and it does seem to be attributed to him but the actual source is a bit vague.

gargleblaster

Love Mae West

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

Good sex is like good Bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.


And Dorothy too

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Giselle

More Dorothy:

“You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.”



“Inventory

Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

Four be the things I’d been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.

Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”

confuseddotcom

Reality is something you rise above.
Liza Minnelli

I never look back, I look forward.
Steffi Graf

My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place, - I can take them anywhere.
Olivia Newton-John

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar.
Grace Paley

All my life I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I personally think, we developed language, because of our deep inner need to complain.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

When we talk to God we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
Jane Wagner

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Margaret Walker

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says, while he is in love, drunk, or running for Office.
Shirley MacLaine.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa

Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis

confuseddotcom

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

WesternNight

The best index of a person's character is a) how he treats people who can't do him any good and b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
- Abigail Van Buren

Novella

"Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you're afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth."

"Words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know that they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder."

Jodi Picoult.

confuseddotcom

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Madame de Stael

The road to success is always under construction.
Lily Tomlin

gargleblaster

"Why do people say, 'grow some balls'? Balls are weak & sensitive. If you really wanna get tough, grow a vagina. Those things take a pounding."
Betty White

Isard

I do not love this world as it is. I am trying to make it a little more as I would like to have it
-Helen Keller

confuseddotcom

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
Jane Austen

Time is a Dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Faith Baldwin

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
Mary Catherine Bateson

Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving.
Erma Bombeck

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't re-read a phone call.
Liz Carpenter

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
Joan Collins

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
Geraldine Ferraro

Loopsie

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles
Audrey Hepburn