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- When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
- John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)
- If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try.
- Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
- The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), O Magazine, May 2003
- The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.
- Roseanne Barr
- I have gotten a lot more attention than...other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And this has happened to me ever since I was a girl, when I was flat, had no teeth, was skinny and small as I could be. I always got more attention than anyone else. If I hadn't, I would have made sure I did.
- Salma Hayek
- The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
- Roseanne Barr
- You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
- Ellen DeGeneres, US Magazine, January 1995
- A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.
- Muriel Fox
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