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“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”

“Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.”

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

“A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.”

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?”

“Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.”

“If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.”

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

“A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.”

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.”

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”

“I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.”

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”

“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.”

“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”

“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”