Top 1200 Brave Women Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Being brave isnt supposed to be easy, but its the key to moving forward.

The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

I'm not nearly as brave and confident in some of the ways that I think stand-ups are.

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

In the era of Venus Williams, girliness and goo isn't the way to every woman's heart. Yet publishers presume that women only buy a book that looks soft and that appears to be all about women, even if it isn't. Yet women, unlike men, buy books by and about both sexes.

Under Islamic precepts, men cannot enter the home of a woman who they don`t know, and so they need the women in this effort to enter homes where they`re - where they`re looking for possible women terrorists, women accomplices of Boko Haram, and trying to either disarm them or get them out of that movement.

Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.

When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis accomplishes on the level of ideas, practice makes actual at the level of facts: by its very existence, lesbian society destroys the artificial (social) fact constituting women as a 'natural group.' A lesbian society pragmatically reveals that the division from men of which women have been the object is a political one . . .

We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.

Culturally we don't allow women to be as free as they would like, because that is frightening. We either shun those women or deem them crazy… But being that woman who pushes the boundaries means you also bring in less desirable aspects of yourself. At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.

I own works by women artists; it is hard for me to see, literally to see, how women and men differ in the quality of their work. Why are women artists less known and less admired?

Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.

Women's rights are women's rights. One of the things that woke me up was equal pay. I started thinking about it: Who is the leader of women? Take me to your leader. And there were no leaders.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.

If you are brave enough to be yourself, I think that is a huge risk and should be applauded.

When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.

I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.'

Cowards die many times; a brave man dies but once.

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!

I think people should be brave and take a chance and do what excites them.

It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today -- to women.

Andy Johnson is quick, brave and strong and he will get goals.

We're lucky to have many brave and honorable officers in Alabama and around the country.

Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied the political and civil rights of men, literary women plunged into the expanded world of publication, answering the men's philosophical treatises with provocative novels about women's choices and chances. Lively and learned, The Other Enlightenment links women from Madame de Stael to Simone de Beauvoir in an alternate and daring path to the modern.

Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.

True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.

When I was younger, I never thought I'd be brave enough to go and play abroad.

I'm brave and fearless when I'm performing, but in real life, I'm actually quite prudish.

The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a basic aim of the Party and the Revolution. Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did more to emancipate women than any other single thing. The bicycle was linked in the psyches of women at that time as a symbol of practical emancipation. Women could go places, wear their skirts shorter to manage the bicycle, and be independent.

One of the things women are very good at, that's networking. Women are not afraid to say, "I need." They're not afraid. Men won't even ask for directions. Women will tell each other when they need something. Women will tell each other when their husband is having an affair. Men don't do that.

It just struck me as really odd that there were all of these conversations going on about what young women were up to. Were young women having too much sex? Were young women politically apathetic? Are young women socially engaged or not? And whenever these conversations were happening, they were mostly happening by older women and by older feminists. And maybe there would be a younger woman quoted every once in a while, but we weren't really a central part of that conversation. We weren't really being allowed to speak on our own behalf.

I want us to be brave and aggressive and play like Tottenham Hotspur.

Brave is not saying I have no fear. It’s being terrified and still moving forward.

You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

Choosing love or war: both are brave choices, in their own ways.

To see cartoon-me positioned (alphabetically) amongst so many of my women heroes and role models ... well, I just broke down and cried. Happy tears. I surely hope that this one-of-a-kind collection of radical American women reaches the hands of all children who want to grow up and become amazing women.

Every time a journalist will say: "Can women be funny? Can women be pilots? Can women be scientists?" It's less of a question and more of a statement after a while that makes you believe that maybe we can't. I think that's dangerous. I was really happy that I didn't have those barriers, but now I recognize the barriers of many other people.

Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

Women in their thirties are much more nervous about dating. They feel time is 'running out for them. They want to get married and have a family. The women I see in their forties and fifties know what they want. They are amazing, confident women with good jobs, but they are just struggling to find someone who is their equal.

Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.

A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

Decisions are for the brave, and I am the bravest, deciding to leave Barcelona and Juventus.

In the old world of business, there was often just one seat at the leadership table for women, two at best. That meant that only so many women could advance. But in a world where women recognize the power that they own - and where technology can upend the traditional rules of engagement - one woman winning doesn't mean another loses.

I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.

We have an almost desperate need for more women to run for office and for more women to really gut it out after they have kids and stay in their jobs and get to high positions in companies. We need women at the top more than ever. We need women's voices there because they are very different than men's voices and they bring a very valuable and necessary point of view to the table.

Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead, start where you stand.

Trump is probably disrespected women all of his life. His alignment with women has been with his beauty pageants. And those women said he walked into the rooms where they were changing clothes and he thought that was fine and he had a right to do it. I think that's reflected in his leadership and public policy.