Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carolyn Heilbrun

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Phoebe Cary

But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.

Leymah Gbowee

We must continue to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph. There is no time to rest until our world achieves wholeness and balance, where all men and women are considered equal and free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Pearl Cleage

Sisterhood is a funny thing. It's easy to recognize, but hard to define.

Laurie Colwin

Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

Laurie Holden

I think women are amazing and womens friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.

Judy Chicago

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

Elizabeth Fishel

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.

Russell Lynes

For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

Virginia Woolf

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

Wes Anderson

What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.

Vinton Cerf

If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.

Roseanne Barr

I'm on the mirror diet. You eat all your food in front of a mirror in the nude. It works pretty good, though some of the fancier restaurants don't go for it.

Robin McKinley

One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.

Yahoo Serious

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

Zach Braff

Actually, I stopped looking at myself in the mirror years ago. I wasn't making it to work on time.

Zach Braff

Everyday I question myself. I look in the mirror, or read one of my scripts, or I reflect on my acting and I say to myself 'that was good...but was it Zach Braff good?' Lets just say things have been looking pretty Zach Braff so far.

Wallace Stegner

If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.

Saul Bellow

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

William Langewiesche

So much of who we are is where we have been.

Nate Berkus

The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They represent what we've seen, who we've loved and where we hope to go next. They remind us of the good times and the rough patches and everything in between that's made us who we are.

Henry David Thoreau

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

Kyan Douglas

We all have our paths in life we are supposed to follow to find who we are supposed to be, but it's not always a straight path. There is something inside of us that guides us, and if you are quiet and listen to it, you'll be all right.

Jodi Picoult

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

Julia Cameron

Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves.

Kim Harrison

It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen