A lady is a woman who never unintentionally offends another.
~ Annonymous Southern wisdom
Sometimes it's better to ask for forgiveness than for permission.
~ Annonymous
Our strength is often composed of the weaknesses we're damned if we're going to show.
~ Mignon Laughlin
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
~ Mignon Laughlin
... women are the architects of society.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
We write our own destiny. We become what we do.
~ Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The means IS the end.
~ Annonymous
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
~ Anita Roddick
... some of us just go along ... until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us - or should I say we refuse to let them intimidate us?
~ Peggy Lee
If you give in to intimidation, you'll go on being intimidated.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
~ Diane Ackerman
As I started looking, I found more and more.
~ Valerie Steele
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
~ Diane Ackerman
Power is the ability to do good things for others.
~ Brooke Astor
Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
~ Alexandra Ripley
Asserting yourself while respecting others is a very good way to win respect for yourself.
~ Janice LaRouche
...as one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Peace means loyalty to self....And loyalty to one's self meansnever a gap between thought, speech, act.
~ Ruth Beebe Hill
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
~ Anita Roddick
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
~ Amy Tan
The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy.
~ Charlotte - Catherine
Don't be humble. You're not that great.
~ Golda Meir
... there is a luxury in being quiet in the heart of chaos.
~ Virginia Woolf
I praise loudly; I blame softly.
~ Catherine II
...what matters most is that we learn from living.
~ Doris Lessing
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
~ Oprah Winfrey
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
~ Martha Grimes
...in dreams begins responsibility.
~ Edna O'Brien
I got myself a start by giving myself a start.
~ Madam C. J. Walker
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
~ Julia Child
Without discipline, there's no life at all.
~ Katharine Hepburn
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
None of us suddenly becomes something over night. The preparations have been in the making for a lifetime.
~ Gail Godwin
... this thing that we call "failure" is not in the falling down, but the staying down.
~ Mary Pickford
I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
~ Mary Oliver
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
~ Mary Oliver
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
~ Mary Oliver
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
~ Mary Oliver
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation or a relationship.
~ Deborah Tannen
The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself.
~ Thea Astley
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
~ Ann Landers
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
~ Patti Smith
The only real elegance is in the mind. If you've got that, the rest follows from it.
~ Diana Vreeland
Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table
~ Diana Vreeland
I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
~ Diana Vreeland
Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
~ Diana Vreeland
At times... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.
~ Gail Godwin
The way you say a thing is part of what you say, so you have to choose the right way.
~ Isabel Bishop
Never tell people what you are not. Introduce yourself in the affirmative.
~ Annette Polan
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
~ George Eliot
What you think is the heart may well be another organ.
~ Jeanette Winterson
... what women want is what men want. They want respect.
~ Marilyn Vos Savant
The events of your life will color you and your life. The trick is in picking the colors.
~ CMMP
The beginning is giving...
~ Muriel Rukeyser
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
~ Toni Morrison
Don't be afraid to feel as angry or loving as you can.
~ Lena Horne
... We didn't choose our jealousies, dealt us like a hand we'll never play exactly right.
~ Christiane Jacox Kyle
Fancy lovers never last.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
I proudly show my lovely face to the Earth and Sky.
~ Francesca De Grandis
Adore your inner and outer beauty, and that of other people.
~ Francesca De Grandis
Love is like laying checkers. You have to know whivh man to move.
~
Jackie "Moms" Mabley
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
~ Iris Murdoch
They err, who say that husbands can't be great lovers.
~ Annie Finch
If you can't hold them in your arms, please hold them in your heart.
~ Lorraine Hale
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead!
~ Fannie Flagg
The past is not a package you can layaway.
~ Emily Dickinson
She knew what all smart women knew... Laughter made you live better and longer.
~ Gail Parent
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
~ Ralph Waldo
Emerson
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
~ Chinese Proverb
Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5.
~ Roseanne
I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
~ Confuciu
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
~ Johann von Goethe
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
~ Marie Stopes
Beauty - in projection and perceiving - is 99.9% attitude.
~ Grey Livingston
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
~ Saint Augustine
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
~ Rosalind Russell
Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.
~ Garrison Keillor
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
~ Ivan Panin
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
~ Helen Keller
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
~ Sophia Loren
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
~ Miss Piggy
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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