Rich Women Quotes - Page 2

• How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

  Adrienne Rich

  Daughter, Mother, Son

  Adrienne Rich (2016). “Collected Poems: 1950-2012”, p.470, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When I looked at my life’s ledger I realized I was a very rich woman. What I was experiencing was merely a temporary cash-flow problem. Finally, I came to an inner awareness that my personal net worth couldn’t possibly be determined by the size of my checking account balance. Neither can yours.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Cash Flow, Balance, Size

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• No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspiring, War, Believe

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• Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Children, Home, School

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• Ann Romney... looked to me like a corporate wife. The stories she told about struggles - eh! It's hard for me to believe. I mean, she's a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that.

  Juan Williams

  Believe, Struggle, Mean

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