Quotes on I Am Woman

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.