(BY) WOMEN QUOTES

You have enough. You do enough. You are enough.

– Sark

There are only two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

– Edith Wharton

Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow – it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

– Shakti Gawain

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

– Margaret Young

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

– Ingrid Bengis

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

Self-care is the oxygen of creativity. Self-love is the healing rain and nurturing sun.

– Julia Cameron

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.

– Naomi Wolf

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

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

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

– Geena Davis, actress

A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs.

– Marge Piercy

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

– Brenda Ueland

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

If you've ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track.

– Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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

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