Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
George Bernard ShawWhat good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?
Marilyn MonroeMy family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.
Michelle ObamaBooks constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas JeffersonMy business acumen is definitely growing.
Kevin HartWhen everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits – you know, like we just don’t give a damn.
Kendrick LamarLeadership is influence.
John C. MaxwellGenteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Friedrich NietzscheWhen I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.
Jane GoodallBoys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Anne FrankIn the ’50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
Madeleine AlbrightIn the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.
Billie EilishA businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.
Kurt VonnegutWhen people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.
Lady GagaPeople have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.
Alice WalkerIf you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.
Robert Baden-PowellI grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.
Angelina JolieFame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
Baruch SpinozaNo one wants to see curvy women.
Karl LagerfeldI just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
Dan QuayleTo be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel JohnsonA man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
Marilyn MonroeAt 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.
Herbert HooverIf a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
Friedrich NietzscheIt is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
Virginia WoolfNo decent career was ever founded on a public.
F. Scott FitzgeraldNobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert CamusIt would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
Karl LagerfeldMy mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
Ruth Bader GinsburgIf you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘
Jordan PetersonI was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.
Alice MunroYou don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.
Ray BradburyI don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.
Matthew McConaugheyMy decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
Jimmy CarterI definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male – or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you’ll see what I mean.
Kurt CobainIt’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.
Christopher HitchensPoverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.
Taylor SwiftYou can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
Barack ObamaI should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
George EliotYou may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
George EliotI have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
Noam ChomskyAs far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya AngelouWe of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
George OrwellHollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.
Dr. SeussI think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.
Kevin HartIf we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
Virginia WoolfI didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.
Christopher HitchensI want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
J. ColeThe worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.
Robert FrostWe’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.
Anthony HopkinsWhat is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
BuddhaWomen must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
Amelia EarhartGroups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.
Thomas SowellI’ve been in continuing education programs since taking my dance master’s exam at age 21.
Abby Lee MillerLife is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.
Tom BradyA man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
Elbert HubbardI don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.
Angelina Jolie