Lifting Women Up Quotes

#1. I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.

Greta Scacchi

#2. Revolutionaries are born the moment they find a cause worthy of sacrifice.

Daniel K. Norris

#3. We're not really indigenous to this world, this world being a temporal plane of reality.

Frederick Lenz

#4. I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an adult. It's funny, because I was never big into autographs as a kid. The only player who I ever wanted an autograph from was Dave Winfield.

Derek Jeter

#5. Maybe God gets nervous in places like this, the way I feel in restaurants with linen napkins, because if he does exist, I don't feel him here.

Marie-Helene Bertino

#6. For those people who don't know what Whiteboy clothing is, it is not a white-supremacy thing. It is a great clothing line that just says, 'Have fun.'

Mark Zupan

#7. Meanwhile in the valley, Alice was having a confusing conversation with a starling.

Steve Merrick

#8. I thought of women in other places, streets and boulevards in major cities, wind blowing, a woman's skirt lifting in the breeze, the way the wind tenses the skirt, giving shape to the legs, making the skirt dip between the legs, revealing knees and thighs. Were these my father's thoughts or mine?

Don DeLillo

#9. Jaz immediately thought of a scene from a prison gym. Even the women looked tough and intimidating; lifting weights that she could never imagine lifting.

A.Z. Green

#10. Generally, men are superior in the areas of heavy lifting, where there's a past only by pachyderms and building cranes. Beyond that, I believe any right-thinking thinking will see that women have the indisputable advantage.

Lois Greiman

#11. Look at Michelle Obama. Everyone keeps making a big deal about her arms being exposed, but don't get it twisted: her arms are out for a reason. Black women have had those arms forever - lifting, picking cotton, toting and carrying babies.

LaTanya Richardson

#12. I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.

Vicki Lawrence

#13. Rather than a problem to be solved, the world is a joyful mystery to be contemplated with gladness and praise.

Anonymous

#14. I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.

Richard Siken

#15. ...one of those moments had just passed, a moment in which normalcy becomes crisis and then flips back so fast it's hard to hang onto the significance of what has just happened" (143).

Jo Deurbrouck

#16. Financial inclusion matters not only because it promotes growth, but because it helps ensure prosperity is widely shared. Access to financial services plays a critical role in lifting people out of poverty, in empowering women, and in helping governments deliver services to their people.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#17. Wrinkled women lifting their faces, chasing their youth.
Fat men sucking in bellies.
Poor folks putting on airs.
Sinners acting like saints.
All of us keeping pace with our companions, stepping lively in this dance of deceit.

Philip Gulley

#18. The lifting up of the woman does not require the tearing down of the man. In fact, a strong woman appreciates a strong man. Conversely, a strong man is not intimidated by a strong woman.

T.D. Jakes

#19. Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of poverty.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#20. It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.

Billy Corgan

#21. I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do the things they needed them to do, whether it was hunting or lifting heavy things, so what's a man's place now? Who knows!

Rashida Jones

#22. Overcoming challenges purifies you like gold to become bold.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#23. The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.

Olympia Brown