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""The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.""
— J.K. Rowling

23 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,800 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,868 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,453 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,767 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
5,886 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
7,394 people liked it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
7,125 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
6,469 people liked it

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
5,373 people liked it

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

tags: angelou, maya
5,288 people liked it

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women
3,936 people liked it

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: inspiration
200 people liked it

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
2,288 people liked it

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust
1,356 people liked it

"...but better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

tags: life
582 people liked it

"Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows."
— Nawal El Saadawi (Woman At Point Zero)

3 people liked it

""You must learn to respect," Papa said.

"But I do not respect her," I said.

Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect."
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— Lawrence Hill (Someone Knows My Name)

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"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: women
7,245 people liked it

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
3,168 people liked it

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
— Joseph Conrad

tags: women
1,272 people liked it

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: men, women
878 people liked it

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, men, women
609 people liked it

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: mothers, women
583 people liked it

"Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

tags: freedom, women, writing
435 people liked it

"There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out."
— Mae West

tags: women
505 people liked it

"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels."
— Ann Richards

tags: dance, dancing, politics, texas, women
383 people liked it

"In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."
— Margaret Thatcher

tags: men, women
348 people liked it

"No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it."
— Elizabeth Peters

tags: amelia, men, peabody, women
282 people liked it

"Every woman is a rebel."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: rebel, women
252 people liked it

"Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings."
— Cheris Kramarae

tags: feminism, women
240 people liked it

"As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world. "
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
224 people liked it

"I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing."
— Mae West

tags: modeling, women
205 people liked it

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition"
— Timothy Leary

tags: feminism, women
153 people liked it

"It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again."
— Orson Scott Card (The Folk of the Fringe)

tags: women
139 people liked it

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. "
— Roseanne Barr

tags: feminism, power, women
129 people liked it

"As they passed the rows of houses they saw through the open doors that men were sweeping and dusting and washing dishes, while the women sat around in groups, gossiping and laughing.

'What has happened?' the Scarecrow asked a sad-looking man with a bushy beard, who wore an apron and was wheeling a baby carriage along the sidewalk.

'Why, we've had a revolution, your Majesty -- as you ought to know very well,' replied the man; 'and since you went away the women have been running things to suit themselves. I'm glad you have decided to come back and restore order, for doing housework and minding the children is wearing out the strength of every man in the Emerald City.'

'Hm!' said the Scarecrow, thoughtfully. 'If it is such hard work as you say, how did the women manage it so easily?'

'I really do not know,' replied the man, with a deep sigh. 'Perhaps the women are made of cast-iron.'"
— L. Frank Baum (The Marvellous Land of Oz)

tags: women
98 people liked it

"A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men."
— Gloria Steinem

tags: equality, feminism, humanity, men, women
81 people liked it

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."
— Alice Walker

tags: animals, men, race, women
74 people liked it

"She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down."
— Zadie Smith

tags: sex, women
101 people liked it

"Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood."
— Susan B. Anthony

tags: bicycle, emancipation, women
75 people liked it

"Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?"
— Carrie Snow

tags: humor, marriage, men, relationships, single, women
67 people liked it

"You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!"
— Georgette Heyer (Powder and Patch)

tags: humor, men, thoughts, women
65 people liked it

"The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad."
— Erica Jong

tags: anais, bad, erica, girl, good, jong, lovers, nin, sexuality, women
47 people liked it

"Educate a boy, and your educate and individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.
African proverb via Greg Mortensen "
— Greg Mortenson (Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time)

tags: community, education, inspiriational, proverb, sharing, women
51 people liked it

"Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?

I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger."
— Cher

tags: age, men, music, rock, women
43 people liked it

"Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age."
— Gloria Steinem

tags: aging, feminism, radicals, women
40 people liked it

""Behind every successful woman, are three more egging her on!""
— Catherine Leyen

tags: women
38 people liked it

"Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man."
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

tags: feminism, men, women
39 people liked it

"Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses."
— Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)

tags: religion, women
34 people liked it

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