The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer. ~ Maria Mitchell

There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman. ~ Margaret Mead

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them. ~ Doris Lessing

Women are the architects of society. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents. ~ Susan Taylor, Charlotte Observer, 4/15/05

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of mankind. ~ Queen Elizabeth II

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles. ~ Sandra Day O'Connor

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown watch the raindrops coming down the windowpane? ~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

There cannot be too many glorious women. ~ Marianne Williamson

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. ~ Elizabeth Bowen

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. ~ Gail Sheehy, Sex & Seasoned Woman

Don't shut yourself up in a bandbox because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, educate yourself to take your part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours. ~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Women keep a special corner of the heart for sins they have never committed. ~ Cornelia Otis Skinner

Great woman belong to history and to self-sacrifice. ~ Leigh Hunt

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. ~ Audre Lorde

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful. ~ Françoise Sagan

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft

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