Women'swisdom Quotes

Louise Otto:

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



Elizabeth Dole:

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste of power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman: (on the term "housewife")

"A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband."




Harriet Beecher Stowe:

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
-- W.R. Wallace

Faith Whittlesey:

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.




Joan Baez

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men -- bring them softness, teach them how to cry.




Zephyr quotes.

I know I missed the boat called perfection
but my errors are portals of discovery
and there are times
when a little madness sets me free.


I thought it easy to pen verse - until
I discovered she will have my guts
in a last stand against the instant