Quotes by 20th-century Women

Madonna

Marilyn Monroe

Anne Frank

Elizabeth II

J. K. Rowling

Margaret Thatcher

Audrey Hepburn

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

My studies gave me only a very superficial knowledge of philosophy but sharpened my interest in it. I benefited greatly from being a teacher—that is, from being able to spend a great deal of time reading, writing and educating myself.

Simone de Beauvoir

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature — and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

Cheryl Crawford

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

I was never happy in Hollywood. There, everything is distorted by the importance people give to money.

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

Annie Leibovitz

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

Jacqueline Cochran

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.

Margaret Thatcher

Keeping books on charity is capitalist nonsense! I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

Become one with eternity.
Become part of your environment.
Take off your clothes.
Forget yourself. Make love.
Self-destruction is the only
way to peace.

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

Charlotte Whitton

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown.... It is a city that offers me more people — more different kinds of people — than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.

Katharine Graham

As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are.

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.