85 phrases of unique women who made history
Over many centuries women have been the forgotten ones of the history to .
Of course, that does not mean that they did not contribute to the advancement of society or that they did not have a rich psychological life: below you can see a selection of women's phrases in which one can intuit their concerns, motivations and reflections.
Phrases of influential women and thinkers
These reflections and phrases of women are not listed in any specific order and, if you think there are other interesting quotes that could have been included, you can leave them in the comments section.
1. We can not let the limited perceptions of others end up defining us (Virginia Satir)
This psychotherapist talks here about how we create self-image and self-concept.
2. If you want to travel far, there is no better ship than a book (Emily Dickinson)
As a poet who was Emily Dickinson, it is normal to express this attachment to literature.
3. The best life is not the most lasting, but rather the one that is full of good deeds (Marie Curie)
A reflection of one of the most important scientists in history.
4. We are not born as a woman, but we become one (Simone de Beauvoir)
The philosopher Simone de Beauvoir focused the focus of interest of her thought on the study of gender and feminism, and in this sentence one of her most important ideas is formulated: gender as something non-biological.
5. Those who do not move do not notice their chains (Rosa Luxemburg)
This Marxist theorist expressed an apparent paradox in this way: the existence of oppressed people who are not aware of it.
6. Dance is a poem from which each movement is a word (Mata Hari)
This well-known dancer talks about the properties of dance.
7. I paint myself because I am the one I know best (Frida Kahlo)
One of the best known phrases of this artist.
8. Understanding is a two-way street (Eleanor Roosevelt)
A very graphic way of conceptualizing understanding as a bidirectional link.
9. You can not shake hands with those who remain with a closed fist (Indira Gandhi)
A reflection imbued with anti-warism.
10. It would be good to feel less curious about people and more about ideas (Marie Curie)
Another of Marie Curie's phrases; it can be interpreted as a reflection of his analytical mentality.
11. Happiness in marriage is a matter of pure luck (Jane Austen)
Jane Austen was characterized by the sardonic and dispassionate way of seeing things, and here this feature can be intuited. This is one of the most remembered phrases of Pride and Prejudice.
12. Blindness separates us from the things that surround us, but deafness separates us from people (Helen Keller)
A reflection on the deprivation of sensory stimuli.
13. If we want to be cautious, we should not take a high confidence in ourselves as if it were a guarantee of something (Elizabeth Loftus)
This renowned psychologist talks about one of the conclusions she drew from her research.
14. Living is like moving through a museum: it is then when you begin to understand what you have seen (Audrey Hepburn)
The phrases of influential women do not only have to do with philosophers or scientists. In this, Audrey Hepburn, an actress of blockbuster movies, offers this reflection suggestion .
15. The most revolutionary thing that a person can do is to always say out loud what is really happening (Rosa Luxemburg)
Another of Rosa Luxemburg's quotes, this time about the right to express oneself.
16. The body is made to be seen, not to be covered (Marilyn Monroe)
Marilyn Monroe embodied the liberation of certain sexual taboos in relation to women.
17. We do not see things as they really are, but rather we see them as we are (Anaïs Nin)
The projection is, for this writer, a constant in our way of perceiving reality.
18. If you can not give me poetry, can you give me poetic science? (Ada Lovelace)
Ada Lovelace's passion for science, poetry and mathematics is captured here.
19. Beauty is how you feel inside yourself, and it is reflected in your gaze (Sophia Loren)
A reflection on beauty, self-esteem and the public image we give.
20. Dancing: the greatest intelligence in the freest body (Isadora Duncan)
Poetic definition of the hand of one of the most important dancers.
22. If someone betrays you once is your fault, but if he betrays you twice, then the fault will be yours (Eleanor Roosevelt)
A phrase that is adhered to a recommendation of caution.
23. Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, do not make that a secret (Mary Kay Ash)
A council aimed at making others happy.
24. The greatest danger that the future holds for us is apathy (Jane Goodall)
The way of conceiving the times that come from this primatologist is collected here.
25. Security is basically a superstition (Helen Keller)
For this thinker, security is an illusion that allows us to live in a certain order but that does not allow us to see beyond certain mental frames.
26. In the dark, the things that surround us do not seem more real than dreams (Murasaki Shikibu)
A reflection of one of the most important Japanese writers in history.
27. Freedom is always freedom for those who think differently (Rosa Luxemburg)
A way of conceiving freedom looking for it where its existence is put to the test.
28. Life would be so wonderful if we knew what to do with it ... (Greta Garbo)
An existential reflection of Greta Garbo.
29. The interpretation is internal, but must be externalized (Sarah Bernhardt)
A phrase about the tasks of the actor and the actress when it comes to giving up his body to allow characters to emerge.
30. I can not stop while there are lives to save (Edith Cavell)
Edith Cavell saved dozens of lives during the First World War, and in this sentence he expresses his strong motivation to help others .
31. All that matters are those friends you call at 4 a. m. (Marlene Dietrich)
It may seem like a frivolous thought, but in reality it is a reflection on friendship that is totally valid.
33. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all (Helen Keller)
An invitation to live life in a daring way.
34. Fury can not solve any problem (Grace Kelly)
About the uselessness of anger (something that many evolutionist psychologists would discuss, yes).
35. Society only takes care of one as long as it is profitable (Simone de Beauvoir)
A cold way of seeing certain bonds of mutual help that are created in society.
36. When we can not keep dreaming, we die (Emma Goldman)
The importance of the possibility of imagining a better future.
37. Life is the process of becoming (Anaïs Nin)
Life understood as something that develops over time.
38. Sex: in America, an obsession, in other parts of the world, a fact (Marlene Dietrich)
In this selection of women's phrases there is also room for humor. Why not?
39. Independence is happiness (Susan B. Anthony)
Practically a life slogan for its brevity and simplicity.
40. Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in one person (Isadora Duncan)
Another reflections on the nature of dance.
41. The intellectual, the moral and the religious seem to be interrelated in a harmonious whole (Ada Lovelace)
Ada Lovelace's interests went far beyond mathematics, and also extended to the philosophical and the social.
42. It is always the simple that generates the wonderful (Amelia Barr)
A way of thinking about beauty as something that germinates in minimalism.
43. There is nothing more beautiful than laughter (Frida Kahlo)
A small sample of vitalism on the part of this artist.
44. You can not find peace by avoiding life (Virginia Woolf)
Life is a source of conflicts that we have to know how to face in the best possible way.
45. If you follow all the rules you lose all the fun (Katharine Hepburn)
The fun is something that is worth not losing sight of when interacting with the rules, according to this actress.
46. There are no distances when you have a motive (Jane Austen)
Distance is also a relative element beyond Einstein's theories.
47. Aging is not for the weak (Bette Davies)
The aging process can be seen as part of personal evolution.
48. It is our decisions that show who we really are, more than our abilities (J. K. Rowling)
One of the phrases of the most important author of juvenile literature so far in the 21st century.
49. My imagination makes me human and, it makes me ignorant; It gives me a whole world, and it makes me exile myself from this (Ursula K. Le Guin)
As a science fiction writer, Ursula K. Le Guin feels close and at the same time far from the worlds she imagined.
50. Policy issues are too serious for us to leave to politicians (Hanna Arendt)
For this philosopher, the politics going is something that should be done on the street by the people on foot .
51. Love is the difficult discovery that there is something beyond oneself that is real (Iris Murdoch)
The affective bonds that are established in love also suppose a transcendental discovery that unites us with someone in a unique way.
52. The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of the woman (Sophia Loren)
A somewhat conflictive way of seeing the relationship between the sexes, but that in the film world has been very exploited.
53. One never gets better, but different and older, and that is always a pleasure (Gertrude Stein)
Growing up can simply be change, not progress, without it being a drama.
54. It is harder to kill a ghost than a reality (Virginia Woolf)
A poetic way of seeing the personal dramas before which we face.
55. People looked at me like I was a mirror (Marilyn Monroe)
One of the phrases of a woman who came to fame in part because of her image and who, however, felt alienated.
56There is no worse agony than to take with us a story that has not been told (Maya Angelou)
A phrase about the stories that deserve to be told.
57. A scientist believes in ideas, not in people (Marie Curie)
Another phrase about the analytical mentality of Marie Curie , focused on demonstrating hypothesis empirically.
58. Children should be educated about how to think, not about what they should think (Margaret Mead)
This anthropologist differentiates between education about formal thought and the content of this thought.
59. Fate is a word we use to watch in retrospect elections with dramatic consequences (J. K. Rowling)
The concept of destiny can be seen as something that only serves to see with better eyes past dramas.
60. I do not see the misery that exists but the beautiful that still remains (Anne Frank)
One of the phrases of Anne Frank most remembered for her positivity.
61. If you only have a smile, give it to someone you love (Maya Angelou)
Another invitation to share expressions of appreciation and affection.
62. There is no charm that can be compared to the tenderness of the heart (Jane Austen)
Quote from one of the most important writers of the eighteenth century.
63. When one door of happiness closes, another opens (Hellen Keller)
This is a phrase widely used as a source of optimism and motivation.
64. Few of us are what we look like (Agatha Christie)
An affirmation whose value lies, in part, in being held by one of the referents of the crime novel.
65. One never sees what has been done, but sees what remains to be done (Marie Curie)
The idea that we always see the possibilities and potentialities of the situations we live, and not so much what we have to experience.
66. From the past we have to remember more than the pleasant (Jane Austen)
The memory and its recesses.
67. Where there is no struggle there is no strength (Oprah Winfrey)
The effort of facing difficulties can be edifying.
68. When there are large sums of money at stake, it is best not to trust anyone (Agatha Christie)
Selfishness gains weight when the possibilities of concentrating many goods increase, according to this idea.
69. The worst enemy of women is the pulpit (Susan B. Anthony)
One of the most groundbreaking phrases of this American suffragist.
70. The first idea that a child should learn is the difference between good and evil (Maria Montessori)
An idea very applicable to teaching in schools, but also to the time of parents.
71. We must tell our young women that their voices are important (Malala)
This activist born in Pakistan struggles to make new generations of women aware of their legitimacy to act and make decisions just like men.
72. The eyes of the rest, our prisons; your thoughts, our cages (Virginia Woolf)
Social pressure can strongly condition our lives.
73. Virtue can only flourish among equals (Mary Wollstonecraft)
The best facets of the human being are only visible when there is no domination of one over the other.
74. We do not have a society if we destroy the environment (Margaret Mead)
We do not live isolated from the rest of the planet, this is an extension of our existence.
75. What makes us human is the ability to ask questions (Jane Goodall)
Curiosity directs our intellect.
76. Each person must live his life as a model for others (Rosa Parks)
This reference of the struggle for equality defends the idea of inspiring others doing good.
77. Adventure has value in itself (Amelia Earhart)
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to cross the Atlantic as an aviator. In this sentence he expresses his adventurous spirit.
78. The purest discipline test is its absence (Clara Barton)
A reflection on the temptation not to do the right thing when nobody looks.
79. The only thing that is better than singing is singing more (Ella Fitzgerald)
80. Love only dies when growth stops (Pearl S. Buck)
The end of that emotional bond comes when we no longer have motives or referents.
81. A ship in a port is safe, but that is not what a ship is built for (Grace Hopper)
This pioneer of programming languages talks about the need to leave the comfort zone.
82. For a long time, society has placed obstacles before women who wanted to enter the sciences (Sally Ride)
This astronaut was the first American woman to explore outer space.
83. When men kill, our job as women is to fight for the preservation of life (Clara Zetkin)
War has been an exclusively masculine phenomenon during a good part of history,
84. Organized work is a necessary component of democracy (Dolores Huerta)
This activist for workers' rights speaks about the need to establish policies that generate real equality, not only theoretical.
85. Finding joy in your work is like discovering the fountain of youth (Pearl S. Buck)
Involving ourselves in a stimulating job is like being children again with a new toy.
