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We end and begin our day in bed. The atmosphere of love, comfort, and beauty we create here is the one we breathe all week.
– The Renaissance Woman
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
– Indira Gandhi
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If you've ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track.
– Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
– Helen Keller
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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
– Brenda Ueland
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A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs.
– Marge Piercy
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If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
– Geena Davis
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With each passage from one stage of human growth to the next we, too, must shed a protective structure. We are left exposed and vulnurable — but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.
– Gail Sheehy
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when. You only really decide how you're going to live.
– Joan Baez
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Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.
– Naomi Wolf
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Self-care is the oxygen of creativity. Self-love is the healing rain and nurturing sun.
– Julia Cameron
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When you get Jewish, Catholic, Buddhist, Hindu, and Sufi women all practicing their faith in the same room, another religion emerges which is feminine spirituality.
– Carole Lee Flinders