“ I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself. Charles Montesquieu
“ One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally alone with it and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on. Shirley Temple Black
“ Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly uncertain precarious ephemeral and subject to cha… Arthur Schopenhauer
“ Women share with men the need for personal success even the taste for power and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates whether husbands children or… Elizabeth Dole
“ There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves. Philip James Bailey
“ For women there are undoubtedly great difficulties in the path but so much the more to overcome. First no woman would say "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be? Maria Mitchell
“ I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery the offering the pride. Muriel Rukeyser
“ Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race. Mary McLeod Bethune
“ Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward. Paule Marshall
“ You've got to take the initiative and play your game ... confidence makes the difference. Chris Evert
“ I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate. Nancy Astor
“ Only so far as a man believes strongly mightily can he act cheerfully or do anything worth doing. Frederick W. Robertson
“ Accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of woman not the grief of a child ... Kara DiGiovanna
