Famous Women Quotes - Page 4

• I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.

  Dolly Parton

  Love, Music, Song

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• A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

  Halle Berry

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Personality

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• Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Appreciation, Space, Appreciate

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• If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Friends, Faith, Spiritual

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• In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Confidence, Fashion

  "Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets". Book by Marcel Haedrich, 1971.

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  Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

  Nora Ephron

  Life, Inspiring, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jun 26, 2012

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• Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

  Martha Stewart

  Business, Integrity, Work

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• If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

  Mother Teresa

  Motivational, Family, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.329, Image

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• The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

  Isak Dinesen

  Beach, Encouragement, Ocean

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• We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion what is and what is not their 'proper sphere.' The proper sphere for all human beings is the largest and highest which they are able to attain to.

  Harriet Taylor Mill

  Women, Rights, History

  John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill (2015). “Essays on Sex Equality”, p.100, University of Chicago Press

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  We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  God, Nature, Stars

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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  Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

  Margaret Atwood

  Relationship, Women, Laughing

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• I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.

  Uma Thurman

  Love, People, Actresses

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• What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Money, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1834, Penguin

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• I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Life, Want, Filmmaker

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  I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

  Amy Winehouse

  Anger, Fighting, Thinking

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• Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.

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  Sherry Argov

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Women

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship”

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• You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.

  Mary Daly

  Courage, Bravery, Feminist

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• Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership, Business, Women

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1979.

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• Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

  Tawakkol Karman

  Peace, War, Mean

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  We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

  Ann Richards

  Leadership, Truth, America

  Ann Richards' Address at the Democratic National Convention in Texas, www.nytimes.com. July 19, 1988.

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• Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Happiness, Success, Happy

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.95, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Rights, Liberty

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.229, Penguin

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