Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Quindlen

That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.

Alfred de Musset

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

Angela Merkel

Don't get bogged down by life and other people's problems or hang ups.

Angela Merkel

Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.

Angela Merkel

I still believe in the old fashioned ways of showing a woman Respect and Honor!!

Angela Merkel

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

Angela Merkel

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

Angela Merkel

I am thankful for the way I was raised, to be positive. Even when times have gotten rough I have always tried to look on the bright side. Even when I was put down, yelled at and made feel insignificant, I still thought things were alright. I did realize when enough is enough.

Andy Rooney

Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

Angela Braly

That's a good question. I think there should be many other women CEO s. It feels natural to be a CEO of WellPoint, and part of the reason may be that women may be drawn to healthcare as a profession. Women make 70 percent of all healthcare decisions. Women are currently available-ready, willing, and able-to be CEOs of major Fortune 50 or 500 companies. And I expect them to emerge as such over the days, weeks, and months ahead.

Angela Braly

Of the 50 largest companies in the United States, you are the only woman CEO. Why?

Anatole France

Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

Anne Hathaway

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

Anita Roddick

If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

William Shakespeare

A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

William Shakespeare

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.

William Shakespeare

I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.

Robert Bloch

Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.

Rita Dove

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

Thomas Overbury

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

Thomas Otway

Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds, The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.

Thomas Otway

Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look like you; There's in you all that we believe of heaven, Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.

Robert Menzies

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

Susan Sontag

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

Susan Sontag

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

Ray Martin

Women are the more important members of relationships. Women are the survivors, the nurturers and the bosses, despite men pretending it's a male dominated society.

Rashida Jones

Mostly though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire.

Simone de Beauvoir

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

Simone de Beauvoir

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

Simone de Beauvoir

Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.

Simone de Beauvoir

The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.

Simone Weil

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.