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Our purpose is to find notable entries and share these for purpose of entertainment and encouragement to other women. We have been careful to use only legal works. We use green on this page to honor Mother Earth and preservation; and we use Red to honor Life.

Mother Geraldine Greensleeves

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The Dali Lama speaking of recent crackdown
by China on Tibetans, pre-Olympic Games.

Obstinacy is the result of the Will
forcing itself into the place of the Intellect.

Arthur Schopenhaur, 1788-1860

Helen Keller, 1880-1968

Dance is the hidden language
of the soul of the body.

American Dancer
Martha Graham, 1894-1991

Hilary Clinton teary-eyed replied Jan. 7, '08, during a N. H. primary, pre-public discussions after being asked a question by Marianne Pernold-Young, who then sided with Clinton's opponent instead... asked Clinton how she was holding up under the rigors of a presidential campaign.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
it's at the end of your arm,
as you get older,
remember you have another hand --
The first is to help yourself,
the second is to help others.

Audrey Hepburn, 1929-1993

I love to do the things
the censors won't pass.

Marilyn Monroe
(Norma Jean Mortensen)
1926-1962

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily difference we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Marian Wright Edelman, 1939 - living '08
Founder 1973 of Childrens Defense Fund
"Leave no child behind."

Somewhere out in this audience may even be
someone who will one day follow in my footsteps,
and preside over the White House
as the President's spouse.
I wish him well!

Former First & Second Lady
Barbara Pierce Bush, 1925 - living '08
In a Wellesley College commencement speech.

Former Prime Minister & Baroness
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, 1925 - living '08
I know this is a repeat from
another page but I love this quote.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion. The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Wilma Rudolph, 1940-1994; became "the fastest woman in the world" in the 1960 Olympics after winning 3 gold medals in Track. But as a child, she had worn leg braces.

A woman is like a tea bag.
She only knows her strength
when put in hot water.

Former First Lady, Nancy Davis Reagan
(Anne Frances Robbins), 1921 - living '08

Maturity is -- the ability to stick with a job
without being supervised,
the ability to carry money
without spending it,
and the ability to bear an injustice
without wanting to get even.

Abigail Van Buren : Dear Abby
Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips
born 1918 - seriously ill 2008

Don't compromise yourself.
You are all you've got.

Janis Joplin, 1943-1970

10. Edith
     This one has been around since the 1950's or '60s in one form or another.
    The Five R’s -- Rise: pick the next level of your life if you want to Rise to it. Recreate: yourself because if you act like the rest of the crowd, you’ll never Rise above the rest of the crowd. Role Model: transform yourself over more like the person you most admire, and then adjust to suit your own individuality. Copy them only until your own style emerges, then go with it. Risk: you must take Risks at times if you ever want to Rise above your situation. You must leave First Base to get to Second Base, etc. Resource: look for the Resources you need, they won’t come to you. And once you have found them, use them.

Calmness and irony
are the only weapons worthy
of the strong.

I Ching 1150 BCE

Only reapers, reaping early,
In among the bearded barley
Hear a song that echoes cheerly
From the river winding clearly;
Down to tower'd Camelot;
And by the moon the reaper weary,
Piling sheaves in uplands airy,
Listening, whispers, " 'Tis the fairy
The Lady of Shalott."

From : The Lady of Shalott
Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892

How happy is the little stone
That rambles in the road alone,
And doesn't care about careers,
And exigencies never fears;
Whose coat of elemental brown
A passing universe put on;
And independent as the sun,
Associates or flows alone,
Fulfilling absolute decree
In casual simplicity.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, 1830-1886

Never give up,
for that is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896
Authoress of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", 1852.

All I wanna do is have some fun,
I got a feeling I'm not the only one.
Until the sun comes up
over Santa Monica Boulevard.

Grammy Award winner-singer
Sheryl Suzanne Crow, 1962 - living '08

Let not thy Will roar,
when thy Power can but whisper.

Thomas Fuller 1608-1661

Reality is an Opinion!
...unknown

All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhaur, 1788-1860

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the common sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

Gloria Steinem, 1934 - living '08

You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play it better
than anyone else.

Senator Dianne Feinstein
1933 - living '08

I do not feel obliged to believe
that the same God who has endowed us
with sense, reason, and intellect
has intended us to forgo their use.

Galileo Galilei, 1564 - 1642

Peace comes from within.
Do not seek it, without.
                                      Buddha

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Carl Sagan, 1934-1996

It is never too late
to be what you might have been.

English novelist, George Elliot
Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880

The greatest thing you'll ever learn
is just to Love, and be Loved in return.

Character : Christian
From musical : "Moulin Rouge"

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Dr. Joyce Brothers, 1925 - living '08

If it won't matter tomorrow,
let it fly away today.

Old Proverb

With or without religion, you would
have good people doing good things
and evil people doing evil things.
But for good people to do evil things,
that takes religion.

US physicist, Steven Weinberg, 1933 - living '08
The New York Times, April 20, 1999

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 or a prostitute.

Dame Rebecca West
Cicely (changed to Cicily) Isabel Fairfield
1892 - 1983

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