#herself

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. ↗

— Jane Austen

#always #cares #disengaged #done #engaged

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself. ↗

— Mary Matalin

#books #comes #complete #herself #i

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself. ↗

— Susannah McCorkle

#become #billie #billie holiday #desire #first

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#call #choose #consciously #control #does

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. ↗

— Jacopo Sannazaro

#envy #evil #eye #herself #influence

But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#endeavor #eventually #faithful #girl #goal

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#child #did #fully #growing #growing up

Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#amazing #another #bad #get #had

So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#am #being #career #found #her

When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action. ↗

— Manal al-Sharif

#afraid #break #car #drive #guts