Quotes
"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."
Anne Frank (1929-45)
German Jewish refugee, diarist, captured and sent to concentration camp
You may hold my hand for a while, but you hold my heart forever.
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
Gilda Radner
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
Maureen Reagan
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.
Jacqueline Roque, wife of Pable Picasso
Before a marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you've said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
Helen Rowland
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
Rita Rudner
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
Muriel Rukeyser
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Rosiland Russel
Human successes, like human failures, are composed of one action at a time and achieved by one person at a time.
Patsy H. Sampson
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton
Getting to the top isn't bad, and it's probably best done as an afterthought.
Anne Wilson Shaef
In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong, but something greater, it seems inevitable.
Margaret Sherwood
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.
Grace Slick
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Gladys Browyn Stern
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Muriel Strode
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa
Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Margaret Thatcher
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions -- he had money, too.
Margaret Thatcher
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.
Marlo Thomas
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin
Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're scizophrenic?
Lily Tomlin
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Barbara Tuchman
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden
Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
Lady Nancy Astor
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."
Erma Bombeck
Humorous Woman Thoughts/Quotes
A WOMAN'S RANDOM THOUGHTS
Insanity is my only means of relaxation.
Reason to smile: Every 7 minutes of every day, someone in an
aerobics class pulls a
hamstring.
Women over 50 don't have babies because they would put them
down and forget where
they left them.
One of life's mysteries is how a 2 pound box of candy can
make
a woman gain 5 lbs.
My mind not only wanders, it sometime leaves completely.
The best way to forget all your troubles is to wear tight
shoes.
The nice part about living in a small town is that when you
don't know what you're doing,
someone else does.
The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because
by
then, your body and your fat
are really good friends.
Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.
Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain
consciousness.
Amazing! You hang something in your closet for a while and
it
shrinks two sizes!
Skinny people irritate me! Especially when they say things
like, "You know sometimes I
just forget to eat." Now I've forgotten my address,my
mother's
maiden name, and my keys.
But I've never forgotten to eat. You have to be a special
kind of stupid to forget to eat.
A friend of mine confused her valium with her birth control
pills. She had 14 kids, but she
doesn't really care.
They keep telling us to get in touch with our bodies. Mine
isn't all that communicative but I
heard from it the other day after I said, "Body, how'd you
like to go to the six o'clock class
in vigorous toning?" Clear as a bell my body said, "listen
witch... do it and die."
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited
about
nothing (and then they
marry him.)
I read this article that said the typical symptoms of stress
are eating too much, impulse
buying, and driving too fast. Are they kidding? That is my
idea of a perfect day.
I know what Victoria's Secret is. The secret is that nobody
older than 30 can fit into their
stuff.