Womans Quotes for compliation!

"The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...
women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves."

- Louise Otto, (Luise Otto-Peters),  German feminist, 1849

"History...tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all - it is very tiresome."

- Jane Austen (1775-1817), from her book: Northanger Abbey

"If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?"

Kishida Toshiko

"Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women."
Huda Shaarawi, writer and women's rights organizer
1924, Egypt

"The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education."
Catherine the Great
1767, Russia

Women have always struggled with their men-folk for the abolition of slavery, the liberation of countries from colonialism, the dismantling of apartheid and the attainment of peace. It is now the turn of men to join women in their struggle for equality."
Gertrude Mongella of Tanzania
Secretary General of US Fourth Conference on the World's Women, 1995

"Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us."
Christabel Pankhurst, Suffragette

  "Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do?...I have this inclination to study and if it is evil I am not the one who formed me thus - I was born with it and with it I shall die."
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz - Letter to Father Nunez
1681, Mexico

"The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!"
Hildegarde of Bingen

"Although they are only breath, words which I command are immortal"
Sappho
c. 610-640 B.C. Greece

"Pay heed to the word of your Mother as though it were the word of a God."
Anonymous
3,000 B.C. Mesopotamia

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

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."
Rebecca West, The Clarion
1913, England

"Is it not a sentient being, capable of reason, having moral ideas, that men have right? Then women should have exactly the same rights, and yet never, under any free constitution, have women exercised the right of citizenship....The facts prove that men have or believe they have interests that are very different than those of women, because everywhere they have made oppressive laws against them, or at least have established a great inequality between the two sexes."

The Marquis de Condorcet - France, 1787

The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.
Caroline Myss Quote

What's difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was closed. That is hard. But that is also how we grow. We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us.
Marianne Williamson Quote

The older I get, the more centered I become and the more I think I really know about myself. Oprah Winfrey

Remember, the last four letters of the word American are i-can, and so can you!

Alice H Crooker. (my mother)

Hildegard of Bingen is in the photo!