~Quotes by Women~"Normal is different for everyone. Not better or worse, just different." ~Janet Leigh (American Actress) "I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day me differentness would be an assest, then my early life would have been much easier." ~ Bette Midler (American Entertainer) "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." ~Marie Curie (Polish Physical Chemist) "Friendships are our lifelines and our support system." ~Brooke Shields (American Model and Actress) "You can't fake listening. It shows." ~Raquel Welch (American Actress) "Sometimes it is worse to win a fight than to lose." ~Billie Holiday (American Singer) "Jealousy is no more than feeling alone among smiling enemies." ~Elizabeth Bowen (Irish/British Writer) "I know my mind and I have made my choice;...Love me or love me not, you have no voice." ~Edna St.Vincent Millay (American Poet) "Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time." ~Margot Fonteyn (British Ballerina) "I wonder whether you can tell me why it is that people always try so hard to hide their real feelings?" ~Anne Frank (German/Dutch Diarist) "I am back now where I was before I began trying to do things like other people." ~Dorothy Richardson (English Writer) "The psychic scars caused by believing that you are ugly leave a permanent mark on your personality." ~Joan Rivers (American Comedienne) "Without fanaticism one cannot accomplish anything." ~Eva Perón (Argentine Leader) "No coward soul is mine..." ~Emily Brontė (British Writer) "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~Eleanor Roosevelt (American Stateswoman and Humanitarian) "The dreams of the girl are the harvest of the woman." ~Leslie Sahler (American Writer) "No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body." ~Margaret Sanger (American Social Reformer) "Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands-and then eat just one of the pieces." ~Judith Viorst (American Writer) "We are all mysteries...That's what makes life so fascinating." ~Susan Howatch (British Writer) "The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." ~Lady Bird Johnson (American First Lady) "Those who do not complain are never pitied." ~Jane Austen (British Writer) "Don't be afraid to express anger; but choose your fights...don't hassle over every little thing..." ~Jane Brody (American Journalist) "If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain." ~Emily Dickinson (American Poet) "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." ~Beverly Sills (American Opera Singer) "My mother always taught me that the real strength of a person was her ability to move through a crisis-that every big crisis has a purpose and every little diappointment has a bright and wonderful side." ~Cathy Guisewite (American Cartoonist) |