1. “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” – Nora Ephron
2. “As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.” – John Lennon
3. “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” – Robert A. Heinlein
4. “Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.” – Amelia Earhart
5. “When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.” – Bette Davis
6. “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” – Coco Chanel
7. “A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
8. “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce.” -Mark Twain
9. “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” – Brigham Young
10. “In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
11. “In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher
12. “There are no good girls gone wrong – just bad girls found out.” – Mae West
13. “Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.”
– Margaret Thatcher
14. “Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?” – Virginia Woolf
15. “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.” – Joseph Conrad, Chance
16. “How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?” – Anaïs Nin
17. “I want to do is because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
– Amelia Earhart
18. “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
19. “The best protection any woman can have … is courage.”
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
20. “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” – Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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