If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
-Abigail Adams

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
-Katharine Hepburn

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
-Margaret Thatcher

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
-Margaret Thatcher

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
-Mother Teresa

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
-Lily Tomlin

Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
-Lily Tomlin

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
-Lucille Ball

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
-Lucille Ball

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
-Lucille Ball

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
-Marianne Williamson

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
-Oprah Winfrey

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
-Oprah Winfrey

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
-Oprah Winfrey

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
-Pearl S. Buck

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
-Louisa May Alcott

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
-Louisa May Alcott

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
-Erica Jong

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
-Erica Jong

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
-Mary Catherine Bateson

 The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
-Mary McLeod Bethune