Quotes by American Authors - Page 53

No man may make another free.
Zora Neale Hurston
Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.
Bum Phillips
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
If you want a thing done go if not send.
Benjamin Franklin
If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like serve yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
Woman must not depend upon the protection of man but must be taught to protect herself.
Susan B. Anthony
Independence is happiness.
Susan B. Anthony
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
Diane Ackerman
I love being single. It's almost like being rich.
Sue Grafton
There is no such thing as vicarious experience.
Mary Parker Follett
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
Sally Field
Being black does not stop you. You can sit out in the world and say "Well white people kept me back and I can't do this." Not so. You can have anything you want if you make up your mind and you want it.
Clara McBride Hale
It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Betty Friedan
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 merely role models.
Elizabeth Dole
No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara De Angelis
We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
Barbara De Angelis
No one can really pull you up very high-you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.
Louis Brandeis
We're all in this together ... alone.
Lily Tomlin
A secure individual... knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.
Harry Browne
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
Meryl Streep
The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life whether the case be one of coolish baked beans or an unrequited affection.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan but to have any meaning or viability at all a life plan must include intimate relationships.
Harriet Lerner
Do for yourself or do without.
Gaylord Perry
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The best bet is to bet on yourself.
Arnold Glasow
Getting fit is a political act-you are taking charge of your life.
Jane Fonda
We are free up to the point of choice then the choice controls the chooser.
Mary Crowley
What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility place it in our hands and carry it with dignity and strength.
Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua
He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.
William Graham Sumner
Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom?
Hazel Scott
The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.
Roseanne Barr
The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune.
Amelia Earhart
Your future depends on many things but mostly on you.
Frank Tyger
Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint or hope of hearing?
Martin Marty
If you believe then you hang on. If you believe it means you've got imagination you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today I'll come in tomorrow.
Ruth Gordon
Misery is a communicable disease.
Martha Graham
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
Shirley Hazzard
Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis
Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.
Barbara Gordon
I'm not overweight I'm just nine inches too short.
Shelley Winters
I am convinced the longer I live that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.
Mary Todd Lincoln
Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
Elizabeth Elliot
The cure for grief is motion.
Elbert Hubbard
This life is not for complaint but for satisfaction.
Henry David Thoreau
Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.
John W. Raper
You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.
Bernard M. Baruch
Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.
Stephen King
Grumbling is the death of love.
Marlene Dietrich
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
Lady Bird Johnson
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin
No one can figure out your worth but you.
Pearl Bailey
Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
Louis Kronenberger
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.
Joan Didion
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.
Katherine Graham
Whether there are innately female leadership styles ... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.
Charlotte Bunch
The delights of self-discovery are always available.
Gail Sheehy
Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
Cynthia Ozick