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Empowering quotes for women

8 Mar, 2013
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"One is not born a woman, one becomes one." ~ Simone de Beauvoi
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"Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult." ~ Charlotte Whitton
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"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class." ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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"It doesn't matter who you are, or where you came from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always." ~ Oprah Winfrey
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"Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue." ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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"Women really do rule the world. They just haven't figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we're all in big big trouble." ~ Doctor Leon
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"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex." ~ Katharine Hepburn
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"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission."~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." ~ Maya Angelou
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"There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one." ~ Jill Churchill
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"In childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. And what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, her beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together." ~ Anne Frank
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"A woman is like a tea bag: you cannot tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Girls can do anything boys can do in high heels!" ~ Brooke Sachau
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"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men." ~ Joseph Conrad
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