Brilliant Woman Quotes

#1. A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.

Margaret Mead

#2. A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

Helen Rowland

#3. Acquaintance; companion;
One dear brilliant woman;
The best-endowed, the elect,
All by their youth undone,
All, all, by that inhuman
Bitter glory wrecked.

William Butler Yeats

#4. For God's sake, Helen, I stood in front of my peers and basically said, 'Look, chaps, I can't vote because all I can think about is kissing that brilliant woman who was just in here.' And I don't even bloody know if you still want me to kiss you.

Alexia Adams

#5. All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

O. Henry

#6. I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.

James Ellroy

#7. I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!.

Anne Frank

#8. I started out, coming out of college, I had my Realtor's license, and I did real estate full time for a number of years.

Bill Huizenga

#9. [My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.

Harry Connick Jr.

#10. More space for their clothes. I can't tell you how many times I've had nowhere to hang a single damn suit because a woman's closet was so stuffed. Hire a closet planner. She'll think you're brilliant." "She hired one herself a few years back. I need something she hasn't thought of herself.

Barbara Delinsky

#11. One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.

Barack Obama

#12. I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen.
[From a column dated November 17, 1928]

Dorothy Parker

#13. Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

Mitch Landrieu

#14. You looked like the sexiest woman in the world."
"Well, in fairness, I am the sexiest woman in the world."
"And you're always right."
"You are so brilliant to recognize that.

Rachel Caine

#15. I'm able to sign my name to the paintings. That is really a blessing.

Margaret Keane

#16. Try this: say the words "global, global, global" aloud several times, as fast as you can. You'll find yourself sounding like a turkey ("gobble, gobble, gobble").

Jim Stanford

#17. Most problems in life are solved by getting up and going to work each day.

William Deen

#18. The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

Marilyn Hacker

#19. Upside of being an attractive woman; if you're remotely intelligent, people will treat you like you're brilliant. Downside: same thing.

Dov Davidoff

#20. I suppose if the relationship is between two people who are keeping score, then you are right - there will be a winner and a loser. However, if no one is keeping score, then no one loses.

Penny Reid

#21. This woman is like clay in my hands, waiting to be molded into something brilliant and dazzling like a piece of sculpture.

Ella Dominguez

#22. Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these ideas.

Shirin Neshat

#23. Everyone gets real quiet 'cause they're a little uncomfortable.

Andy Offutt Irwin

#24. It was God's brilliant idea to create man, to create woman, and join them in marriage - this unique union that begins with a look and quickly escalates into shouts of joy, nakedness, uninhibited freedom, and a closeness so magical it's described as becoming one flesh.

Justin Buzzard

#25. It is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre.

Maria W. Stewart

#26. You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you're less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone - not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee - push you around.

Richelle Mead

#27. At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert ... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which I likened my fate as a woman to other victims throughout the ages.

Heather Hart

#28. Mary wasn't brilliant.She was a good woman who let her emotions guide her politics. She just couldn't help being for anybody who was agin something.

Murray Morgan

#29. The twenty-first-century successful black woman is brilliant and tenacious and not afraid to flex her intellectual, spiritual, or financial muscles. She has accomplished, earned, and owned more than black women of any other generation in American history.

Sophia Nelson

#30. I think if a woman describes herself as a brilliant cook, she's a bit full of herself.

Graeme Simsion

#31. A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

Jerzy Kosinski

#32. Julie Christie was absolutely amazing in Away From Her. Brilliant movie. It was the moving story of a woman who forgets her own husband. Hillary Clinton calls it the feel good movie of the year.

Jon Stewart

#33. Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.

Madame De Stael

#34. Women are brilliant. Every woman knows how to do the weirdest thing right out of the bucket. Every woman knows how to do that Hindu head wrap with the towel out of the shower. A typhoon couldn't blow that thing off their heads. Ever try to do that? You look like a drunk Iraqi soldier.

Tim Allen

#35. I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.

Madhuri Dixit

#36. If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

Tamara Mellon

#37. If you have not seen a latest movie by taking a furlough, you have not really enjoyed the perks of a government job.

Girdhar Joshi

#38. I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.

Bam Margera