Women Putting Themselves First Quotes

#1. I was named after my mother's maiden name.

Sprague Grayden

#2. I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms ... I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin.

Theodore Roethke

#3. Women right now kind of have this idea of success - putting your career first and then having kids. On one side, it's perfect and it's a great plan, but on the other side, they don't explain to you that after age 35, you start losing eggs.

Thalia

#4. If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#5. I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.

Desmond Tutu

#6. We hear many offers from the world around us; but let us take up God's offer instead: his is a caress of love. For God, we are not numbers, we are important, indeed we are the most important thing to him; even if we are sinners, we are what is closest to his heart.

Pope Francis

#7. Love is the answer to any sort of healing.

Louise Hay

#8. I don't need to reiterate the fact that that everyone has a relationship with cancer. Whether it's an individual-personal relationship - whether it's with family or friends - we've all been touched by cancer.

Sheryl Crow

#9. Whatever happens ... men, women and children have to be prepared to put other people first and thereby create the miracle of the species which is people living together in harmony and putting other people first, before themselves.

Bob Maguire

#10. Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#11. Women need to turn their attention from saving their spouse, their mothers, their this, their that, their kids, to putting that financial oxygen mask on their face first. When they're solid, they can pick up the whole world.

Suze Orman

#12. The bonds of friendship dwindle with age, Oliver. But a little blackmail lasts forever.

Stephen Hunt

#13. And he had a Boston accent that could scrape the rust from a manhole cover.

Neal Stephenson

#14. I think Scotland has some great stories.

Billy Boyd

#15. The stage crew usually had the job of approaching fans. Putting himself in close proximity to a hoard of screaming women wasn't his brightest idea. He knew from experience that the first appendage they grabbed for was not your arm, and they didn't grasp lightly.

Eden Summers

#16. I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'

Gail Sheehy

#17. Having begun, constantly move forward toward your goal, and you will definitely attain your goal.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

Frank Sinatra

#19. Michaela began loudly putting her stuff away - in the way the women do when they want you to say, "Oh, don't put your stuff away." I wasn't going to fall for that one; they teach you that on your first day of womanizing school.

Anonymous

#20. I was interviewed by the Moscow Times and they said how's it feel to know that every Russian school child has to read your Teenage Survival Guide? I said slightly terrifying.

Dee Snider