“Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.”
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Famous Nancy Astor Quotes
“It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.”
“[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.”
“What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?”
“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.”
“I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world.”
“Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions”
“I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.”
“One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.”
“The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.”
“Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.”
“A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.”
“It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.”
“Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.”
“My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.”
“The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.”
“I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.”
“Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.”
“We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know”
“People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.”