Quotable women

 from "Old Collection"

I had this titled "Quotable Women" and numbered, but when I looked up who said what, one of the quotes was from a guy. Oh well.

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."  ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." ~Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette

"Life begets life.

Energy creates energy.

It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."

~Sarah Bernhardt

"Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans."  ~Robert Balzer

"I don't wait for moods.

You accomplish nothing if you do that.

Your mind must know that it has got to get down to earth."  ~Pearl S. Buck

"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"  ~Jane Austen

"Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough."  ~Dinah Shore

"You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."  ~Mary Tyler Moore

"...the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."

~Martha Washington

"I like living.

I have sometimes been wildly,

despairingly, acutely miserable,

racked with sorrow,

but through it all

I still know quite certainly

that just to be alive is a grand thing."

~Agatha Christie

"If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."

~Mary Pickford

"...that is the best - to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny."

~Gloria Vanderbilt

"The psychic scars caused by believing that you are ugly leave a permanent mark on your personality."

~Joan Rivers

"It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."  ~Sally Kempton

"Just remember, we are all in this alone."  ~Lily Tomlin

(my addition: not really, because God is always with us)

"Always there remain portions of our heart into which no one is able to enter, invite them as we may."

~Mary Dixon Thayer

"I always feel that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."  ~Katherine Mansfield

"'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary." ~Louisa May Alcott

"Superior people never make long visits."  ~Marianne Moore

"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."  ~Anne Sullivan

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."

~Marie Curie

"To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work." ~Sister Mary Lauretta

"It is the friends you can call at 4 am that matter."  ~Marlene Dietrich

"If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it - that's the time to hold your tongue."  ~Alice Miller

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."  ~Twyla Tharp

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."  ~Ursula K. LeGuin