#mini

Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage? ↗

— Geraldine Brooks

#inspirational #inspirational

If you are causing trouble, look for allies, always. ↗

— Justine Larbalestier

#inspirational #sirens #inspirational

I want to be a wise woman. ↗

— Lauren Hutton

#inspiration #life #inspirational

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#inspirational #women #inspirational

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#intellect #intelligence #intelligence

[It] began to seem amazing how often it was assumed that having a vagina automatically meant I was less intelligent, talented, capable, and interesting than the world's least interesting human being who happened to have a penis. ↗

— Francine Prose

#essay #feminisim #intelligence

Any girl can be glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#hedy-lamarr #intelligence #woman #intelligence

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock. "Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#academia #academic-degrees #achievements #clichés #double-standards

Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive ↗

— Mary Pipher

#inspirational-quotes #self-image #inspirational

In response to [the Philistine] threat [in the ninth century B.C.], the Hebrews could no longer rely on the leadership of 'judges,' ad hoc military leaders (some of them, peculiarly, women; perhaps reflecting as feminists claim, and earlier matriarchal society). ↗

— Norman F. Cantor

#martriarchal #leadership