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Quotations by Notable Women

"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude"
~ Maya Angelou, writer

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless"
~ Mother Teresa, Nobel Peace Prize winner

"Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got"
~ Janis Joplin, singer

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission"
~ Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be"
~ Grandma Moses, artist

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood"
~ Marie Curie, physicist

"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun"
~ Katharine Hepburn, actress

"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man – if you want anything done, ask a woman"
~ Margaret Thatcher, prime minister

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world"
~ Anne Frank

"It isn’t where you came from, its where you’re going that counts"
~ Ella Fitzgerald, singer

"The surest test of discipline is its absence"
~ Clara Barton, founder of American Red Cross

"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated"
~ Coretta Scott King, civil rights leader

"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by"
~ Lucille Ball, actress

"Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough"
~ Mary McLeod Bethune, educator

"Be careful what you swallow. Chew!"
~ Gwendolyn Brooks, writer

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone"
~ Coco Channel, designer

"One is not born a woman, one becomes one"
~ Simone de Beauvoir, writer

"Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President’s spouse. I wish him well!"
~ Barbara Bush, first lady

"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart"
~ Erma Bombeck, writer

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble"
~ Helen Keller

"Become the change you want to see – those are words I live by"
~ Oprah Winfrey, talk show host

"You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist"
~ Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India

"The body says what words cannot"
~ Martha Graham, dancer

"If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much"
~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, first lady

"It’s better to have a rich soul than to be rich"
~ Olga Korbut, Olympian

"Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded"
~ Sandra Day O’Connor, Supreme Court Justice

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself"
~ Amelia Earhart, aviator

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense"
~ Gertrude Stein, writer

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone"
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, writer

"The greatest danger to our future is apathy"
~ Jane Goodall, zoologist

"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball ~ the further I am rolled the more I gain"
~ Susan B. Anthony, civil rights leader