Great Women Quotes - Page 5

• Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

  Leigh Hunt

  Acceptance, Sacrifice, Greatness

  "Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift".

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• I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers

  John Travolta

  Mother, Children, Memories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Sacrifice, Compassion, Desire

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• Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Sacrifice, Compassion, Study

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• Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Team, Artist, Tennis

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• I always say it was great for God to send his only son, but I'm waiting for him to send his only daughter. Then things will really be great.

  Candace Pert

  Daughter, Women, Son

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• The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing volleyball, a game I commend highly. I understand that an effort is under way to establish a national league of professional volleyball teams, and if you have ever seen the great women's teams of Japan and Russia or the equally good men's teams of Cuba and East Germany, you know how exciting this playground game, which requires so little equipment, can be.

  James A. Michener

  Sports, Volleyball, Fun

  "Sports in America".

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• Among the real heroines in the world who will come into the Church are women who are more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish. These real heroines have true humility, which places a higher value on integrity than on visibility. Remember, it is as wrong to do things just to be seen of women as it is to do things to be seen of men. Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Integrity, Selfish, Real

  Maren M. Mouritsen, Spencer W. Kimball, Bringham Young University (1980). “Blueprints for living: perspectives for Latter-day Saint women”

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• Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the wishy-washy sentimentalism of clingy, all-forgiving sisterhood, from which no first-rate book has yet emerged. Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.

  Camille Paglia

  Book, Writing, Sisterhood

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.241, Vintage

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• In my opinion, the most important thing as a woman leader-and I learned this early through a whole bunch of great women who were in my life (and men, I have to say)-is that if you have a position of leadership and power and you don't use it in a different way, then you're wasting it. So when people used to say to me when I was the first woman president of PBS, "Well, you know, does that mean that as a woman you're going to be a different kind of president?" And I would say, "Well, I hope so!"

  Pat Mitchell

  Strong Women, Mean, Pbs

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• Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Tripping, Behinds

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• Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear.

  Edmund Landau

  Women, Said, Mathematical

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• I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

  Nancy Greene

  Athlete, Overwhelmed, Incredibles

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• During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?

  Karen DeCrow

  Art, School, Renaissance

  Karen DeCrow (1974). “Sexist justice”, Random House (NY)

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• You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.

  James E. Faust

  Uplifting, Good Woman, Instinct

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• I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States.

  Elizabeth Catlett

  Country, Black, United States

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• People often tell me, "You write such great women." I don't think about it, I just write characters as rigorously and as truthfully as I can and hope, no matter their gender, that their humanity comes through.

  Donald Margulies

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Interview with Playwright, Donald Margulies". Interview with Ted Sod, www.broadwayworld.com. January 13, 2014.

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• What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I'm semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing... he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance... Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women.

  Albert Brooks

  Jobs, Nice, Taken

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• Behind every great woman is a great behind!

  Rhonda Shear

  Behind Every Great Man, Behinds

  Interview with Caps, www.retrojunk.com.

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• The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Sweet, Greatness, Men

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• I'm tired of seeing great women in bullshit relationships.

  Greg Behrendt

  Tired, Bullshit, Seeing

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life - to me, it's like a great woman.

  Woody Allen

  Mother, New York, Father

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.128, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Putting on your crown is really like accepting the fact that you are a queen. You're a great woman. Wherever you are in life, just keep on that path, and so for me, sometimes as women, we forget - we forget that about ourselves. So, putting on your crown is sort of reminding yourself that, hey, I'm a queen, and I can do what I want in this life and take it.

  Queen Latifah

  Queens, Hey, Crowns

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