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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
15,281 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,915 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
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"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,858 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
11,310 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
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"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

tags: wisdom
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"May you live every day of your life."
— Jonathan Swift

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
517 people liked it

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: inspirational, language, wisdom
397 people liked it

"90

Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.

(translated by Brooks Haxton)"
— Heraclitus (Fragments)

tags: heraclitus, philosophy, sleep, wisdom
24 people liked it

"107

To be evenminded
is the greatest virtue.
Wisdom is to speak
the truth and act
in keeping with its nature.

(translated by Brooks Haxton)"
— Heraclitus (Fragments)

tags: heraclitus, philosophy, wisdom
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"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

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

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

tags: women
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"They sicken of the calm who know the storm."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: women
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"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
102 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
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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. "
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
82 people liked it

"Empowerment is about doing something for yourself, not doing something to get a reaction."
— jankit

tags: women
57 people liked it

"Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version."
— Carolyn See

tags: herstory, women, writing
47 people liked it

"A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book."
— Caroline Mytinger (Headhunting in the Solomon Islands: Around the Coral Sea)

tags: books, destiny, grrl, woman, women
39 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
385 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
130 people liked it

"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain hes not the man she married?"
— Barbra Streisand

tags: husbands, marriage, men, wives, women
71 people liked it

"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours."
— Charles Caleb Colton

tags: advice, love, women
56 people liked it

"Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life. "
— Erica Jong (How to Save Your Own Life)

tags: feminist, sex, women
9 people liked it

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

tags: women
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"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
287 people liked it

"No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. "
— Betty Friedan

tags: feminism, housekeeping, orgasm, sex, sexuality, women
156 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 most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy."
— Yves Saint-Laurent

tags: cosmetics, fashion, makeup, women
85 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

"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

""Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.""
— Gloria Steinem

tags: feminism, sisterhood, women
31 people liked it

"An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms."
— Salvador Dali (The Secret Life Of Salvador Dali)

tags: elegance, women
25 people liked it

"Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation..."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

tags: woman, women
7 people liked it

"And in the act of making things, just by living their daily lives, they also make history.

Knitting is clothing made in spare moments, or round the fire, whenever women gathered together... It's something to celebrate-clothes made in love and service, something women have always done."
— Anne Bartlett (Knitting: A Novel)

tags: history, knitting, women
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"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition"
— Timothy Leary

tags: feminism, women
153 people liked it

"It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength. "
— Mary Stewart (The Hollow Hills)

tags: love, secrets, women
110 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
66 people liked it

"One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
"
— — Joan of Arc

tags: feminism, historical, inspirational, legendary, women
56 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
52 people liked it

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."
— Virginia Woolf (Orlando)

tags: love, poetry, women
47 people liked it

"No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant when compared to what lies within the core of your being today.
"
— Sandy Brewer (Pursuit of Light: An Extraordinary Journey)

tags: empowerment, growth, life, women
21 people liked it

"Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated"
— Saddam Hussein (The Revolution and Woman in Iraq)

tags: emancipation, female, feminism, feminist, iraq, islam, liberation, women
16 people liked it

"You see, women have been essential to every great move of God. Yes, Moses led the Isaelites out of Egypt, but only after his mother risked her life to save him! Closer to our time, Clara Barton was instrumental in starting the Red Cross. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin put fire into people's heart to end slavery in the United States. Rosa Parks kicked the Civil Rights movement into gear with her quiet act of courage. Eunice Kennedy Shriver created the Special Olympics. Mother Teresa inspired the world by bringing love to countless thought unlovable. And millions of other women quietly change the world every day by bringing the love of God to those around them."
— Stasi Eldredge (Your Captivating Heart: Unveil the Beauty, Romance, and Adventure of a Woman's Soul)

tags: christian, religion, spritual, women
10 people liked it

"Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always."
— Khaled Hosseini

tags: man, men, woman, women
97 people liked it

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