Browsing Topic Best Women In History Quotes

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

A charming woman… doesn’t follow the crowd. She is herself.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it’s very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history’s most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions, including five centuries of almost unimaginable terrorism under Europe’s Inquisition and the unthinkably sadistic legal murder of nearly nine million women. History doesn’t say much very good about God.

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Toughness doesn’t have to come in a pinstripe suit.

Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at one time or another, failed at something. Often repeatedly, and discouragingly. But each failure is nothing more than a brick in the wall that forms the foundation of our success. We can’t forget that.

People just want to hear some common sense… and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government – I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee – not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

I didn’t see many female politicians on TV. I didn’t see women in history textbooks, so I did geography, and art and English literature. But I know I must have been affected by not seeing women represented.

Our ‘pathway’ is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

The best protection any woman can have… is courage.

If society will not admit of woman’s free development, then society must be remodeled.

What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

… over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies. Moreover, a great many distinguished women in history, including several Catholic saints, were also sealed to Joseph Smith in Utah. I saw these astonishing lists in the Latter-day Saint Genealogical Archives in Salt Lake City in 1944.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

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

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Failure is impossible.

Where the women go, the culture goes.