Old age ain't no place for sissies.

- Bette Davis

I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes becuase I know I'm not dumb... and I'm also not blonde.

- Dolly Parton

My second favorite household chore is ironing, my first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

- Erma Bombeck

A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.

- Rhonda Hansome

The phrase "working mother" is redundant.

- Jane Sellman

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

- Erica Jong

I think - therefore I'm single.

- Lizz Winstead

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.

- Elayne Booster

In politics, if you want anything said, as a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

- Margaret Thatcher

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.

- Maryon Pearson

I have yet to hear a man ask advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

- Gloria Steinem

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

- Catherine Aird

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.

- Sue Grafton

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a noose around your neck?

- Linda Ellerbee

I am a wonderful housekeeper. Everytime I leave a man, I keep his house.

-Zsa Zsa Gabor

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

- Roseanne Barr

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purposes as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late every night.

- Marie Corelli

Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

- Charlotte Whitton

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

- Willa Cather

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

- Marie Osmond

He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

- Joan L. Brannon

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day.

- Gloria Steinem

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

- Maya Angelou

I think your whole life shows in your face, and you should be proud of that.

- Lauren Bacall

It's reassuring to know that I can control how I feel and what I do on any given day. The way I choose to see the world creates the world I see.

- Joan Lunden

Everybody must learn this lesson somewhere - that it cost something to be what you are.

- Shirley Abbott

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

- Mother Teresa

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

- Audrey Hepburn

Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy.

- Ann Northrop

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.

- Mary Kay Ash

There's only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.

-Doris Lessing

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; she never produces classes.

-Lydia Maria Child

Your opponet, in the end, is never really the player on the othere side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.

- Gloria Lichtenstein

It is not enough to be very good if you have the ability to be great.

- Alberta Lee Cox

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

-Lisa Alther

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creats a vision for tomorrow.

-Melody Beattie

You can give with loving, but you cannot love without giving.

- Amy Carmichael

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.

- Margaret Thatcher

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are, and then live with that decision.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding is the third.

-Marge Piercy

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

- Sally Berger

You can't assume that kindness in an inherited trait. It is a learned behavior.

- Katie Couric

All that I can say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and the against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

- Frances Wright

I have a lot of excitement in my life. I used to call it tension, but I feel much better now that I call it excitement.

- Madeleine Costigan

Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments.

-Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.

- Mother Teresa

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

- Edith Hamilton

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result 'intuition'.

- Agatha Christie

Let us never confuse stability with stagnation.

- Mary Jean LeTendre

I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people are not like me.

- Florynce Kennedy

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

- Helen Keller

Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

-Mother Teresa

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love taht has no exchange of payment.

- Frances Farmer

Blessed are the influence of one true, loving soul on another.

- George Elliot

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking oneself seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous.

- Dame Margot Fonteyn

To repeat what others ahve said requires education, to challenge it requires brains.

- Mary Pettibone Poole

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.

- Lorraine Hansberry

The naked truth is always better then the best-dressed lie.

- Ann Landers

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

- Elizabeth Bibesco

No one has the right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

- Dorothy Day

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressable comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

-George Elliot

I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to.

- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

- Janet Lane