Women quotes

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

-Henri Frederic Amiel


A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

- Maya Angelou


“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.”

-Clare Boothe Luce, (speech to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.)


Where love is absent, there can be no woman.

-George Sand, Lelia, vol. I, 1833