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It doesn't matter to me that my leaving will cost you money. It doesn't matter that my space will take time to fill. What matters is that I'm happy and if you're not willing to invest in me, then I'm willing to cost you money.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Invest in people, invest in profits
For if people could see- if women especially could see- what is real and true and how the elegant possession of what is in each of our individual hearts is what matters more than anything.
— Kris Radish Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral pg. 297
It is important to note that when Mary Magdalene and other women were chosen by Jesus to bring the important news to the men, the men did not believe the women. Today 2,000 years later men still don't believe women when they say "We are also chosen by Jesus to be leaders in the church.
— Roy Bourgeois
Women always think in the catastrophic, and when there is a calamity to rectify that might require a unmarried granddaughter, there older women will always act. Their powers of foresight and vigilance might make any disheveled or nubile young haggage ready for the altar in five minutes.
— Michelle Franklin
Can we just stop pretending that skinny jeans are a good look on anyone? Can we just band together and go for a boot cut, please? Ladies?
— Jennifer Garner
Women saying, 'I'm not a feminist' is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe that women should be allowed to leave the house? Do you think that women and men both deserve equal rights? Great, then you're a feminist.
— Lena Dunham
Men feel about sex the way vampires feel about blood. They don't just like it, they crave it. That's why vampire stories always have strong sexual undercurrents. A vampire's hunger is simply a metaphor for a man's lust. And if a guy is paying attention to you, he wants to have sex with you.
— Oliver Markus, Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends
Who? Mr. Dalton has his hand firmly on Grace's elbow, as though she can't manoeuvre herself through the blockade of tables and chairs.She could fly right through you, thinks Jack.
— Helen Humphreys, Leaving Earth
When a writer's heart is filled with the music of her soul, her words sing.
— A.D. Posey
Beauty fades and the body becomes old, but nothing can dull the shine of a woman with a good heart.
— Shannon L. Alder
I am RESILIENT, therefore, I am unstoppable. It’s important to always remember who YOU are. No matter what challenges you may have to face, ALWAYS stay true to yourself and NEVER give up. Never!
— Stephanie Lahart
All human life on the planet is born of woman. The one unifying, incontrovertible experience shared by all women and men is that months-long period we spent unfolding inside a woman’s body. Because young humans remain dependent upon nurture for a much longer period than other mammals, and because of the division of labor long established in human groups, where women not only bear and suckle but are assigned almost total responsibility for children, most of us first know both love and disappointment, power and tenderness, in the person of a woman.
— Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that’s the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.
— Joyce Carol Oates, Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included).
— Karl Marx
The women looked from one to the other, knowing what the men didn’t know. We knew the heartbeat and interior graces, compensation for our own clumsiness; the beatitude as we renounced our bodies, our noble little parasites the higher calling. We knew, without saying, the watery rollover, tremor, seismic shudders, the steadiness of the baby’s hiccups, the reliable stab from a kick to the kidney
— Naomi Levy, To Begin Again: The Journey Toward Comfort, Strength, and Faith in Difficult Times
Women, he would say, are not Muses. Muses are Muses. To confuse one with the other is to mistake the Devouring Void for the Seminal Light. Earthly Women and the Muses are ancient, sworn enemies. The battlefield is the Creative Male. On the one side is the encampment of Discordia, of Diana, of Venus located in his Heart and in his Groin. On the other is the Bastion of Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia and Urania, in his Brain and in his Mind. The Muses are tolerant and understanding of border raids, skirmishes, and harassing maneuvers. Throughout the history of the Male Light, there have been few painters, few writers, who have not had a She Who Must Be Accommodated. For some it was their mothers. For many their wives, their mistresses, their girlfriends. For many it was their daughters, a favourite waitress, a stripper, a whore. To the Muses, they are all one. Mother, whore, wife, daughter, stripper, waitress, mistress, girlfriend.
— Dave Sim
He closes the door with a determined click, and I hear him call to a flight attendant, and I sink down onto the toilet seat, resting my elbows on my knees and my head in my hands as I listen to him through the
— Christina Lauren, Sweet Filthy Boy
Women everywhere are always expected to continually imagine what one situation or another would look like from a male point of view. Men are almost never expected to do the same for women. So deeply internalized is this pattern of behavior that many men react to any suggestion that they might do otherwise as if it were itself an act of violence.
— David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
At first, feminists were assumed to be only discontented suburban housewives; then a small bunch of women's "libbers", bra burners, and radicals; then women on welfare; then briefcase carrying imitations of male executives; then unfulfilled women who forgot to have children; then women voters...that really could decide elections. That last was too dangerous, so suddenly we were told we were in a "postfeminist" age...
— Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
Ordinary women never appeal to one's imagination.They are limited to their century. No glamour every transfigures them. One knows their minds as easily as one knows their bonnets. One can always find them. There is no mystery in any of them.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
So what if you have stretch marks. So what if you have cellulite. So what if you don’t have a big butt. So what if you don’t have large breasts. So what if you don’t have flawless skin. So what if you don’t have a body that other people deem to be perfect. So what! Don’t allow people to define YOUR beauty. Hold your head up high and know who YOU are! DO NOT EVER allow anybody to make you feel as if you’re NOT enough. You ARE enough! BELIEVE that.
— Stephanie Lahart
He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy.
— Graham Greene, England Made Me
... because the Legs wasn't fearful of heights or swimming in rough water or Death itself she wasn't afraid to risk making a fool of herself. Maybe you think that's something of no consequence but it isn't - for making a fool of yourself, offering yourself to others to laugh at, to jeer, that takes guts.
— Joyce Carol Oates, Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
It's futile to point the finger of condemnation and say, "Men... this" or "Women... that". Truth is, we are all guilty and innocent of many of life's trials.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Respect, Love, and Value yourself. Always remember to be good to yourself by taking care of yourself. Make yourself a priority and know that it’s okay. Don’t feel guilty for loving yourself, first! You’re just as important as anybody else.
— Stephanie Lahart
The closer you get to know someone, the more you see their true colors.
— ELW-Reta Barnes
Say It Out Loud: I AM beautiful. I AM worthy. I AM somebody. I DO deserve to be genuinely loved. I DO deserve to be respected. I DO deserve happiness.
— Stephanie Lahart
The whole damn thing started when they gave women the vote.
— Gavin Lyall, The Most Dangerous Game
This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them could bear: the cold rain of winter has sufficed to nourish it, and its faint sun to warm it; the bleak winds have not blanched it, or broken its stem, and the keen frost has not blighted it. Look, Gilbert, it is still fresh and blooming as a flower can be, with the cold snow even now on its petals.
— Anne Brontë
There are women who have forgotten that to be a woman doesn't simply mean humiliation, doesn't simply mean bitterness. I haven't forgotten it yet...I'm not going to forget it.
— James     Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
Religion serves all of us; men, women, gays, straights, blacks, whites, Americans and Indians. If it does not comply with our needs, wishes and happiness, then religion without a doubt is a plague that must be stopped.
— M.F. Moonzajer
his wife might, I verily believe, be the very happiest woman the sun shines on
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
As a business owner don't think your limitations, think business; it's all about business.
— Vernita Naylor, Get the Cheese, Avoid the Traps: : An Interactive Guide to Government Contracting
Intuition is truth.
— A.D. Posey
I hate myself that I wasn't there for him. I hate that I could not feel it in him. How could I not know what had happened? How could I not hear it in his voice, his comments, or in his demeanor? He needed my help, and I couldn't feel it.
— Melissa Seligman, The Day After He Left for Iraq: A Story of Love, Family, and Reunion
But trust me, men are never worth it. Behind every great man is a woman who gave up on greatness and tied herself into an apron. Romance is for saps, Abbie. You’re sharp and you’ve got pluck. Don’t waste it.
— William Ritter, Beastly Bones
The window of her sadness was so vast that it almost opened a path to her soul.
— Ondjaki, The Whistler
Never believe someone cares for you because of other people's reactions. Sometimes you have to drown out the noise from the crowd, in order to figure out if there is a song playing between the two of you or simply annoying static that you thought was a tune.
— Shannon L. Alder
Something snapped," said Madeline. She saw Perry's hand shining back in its graceful, practiced arc. She heard Bonnie's guttural voice. It occurred to her that there were so many levels of evil in the world. Small evils like her own malicious words. Like not inviting a child to a party. Bigger evils like walking out on your wife and newborn baby or sleeping with your child's nanny. And then there was the sort of evil which Madeline had no experience: cruelty in hotel rooms and violence in suburban homes and little girls sold like merchandise, shattering innocent hearts.
— Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies
Religions need women. Who else would do all the work?
— Samantha Hunt, Mr. Splitfoot
Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed. Not surprising, considering the sheer amount of traffic a woman’s body experiences. Tampons and speculums. Cocks, fingers, vibrators and more, between the legs, from behind, in the mouth. Men love to put things inside women, don’t they?
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?
— Susan B. Anthony Collection
Remember, this is your day and your world.
— Amelia Boynton Robinson
I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Selma and show their indignation about the injustices against the African-Americans.
— Amelia Boynton Robinson
You’re really a good girl, poor you.
— Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Childless people are always expected to explain themselves, although it would never occur to anyone to ask a woman why she became a mother (and to insist on getting good reasons)
— Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women
There is a huge college about how men and women interact with each other after marriage. But people get married without learning.
— Dada Bhagwan
The man is angry, the manIs destructive, the man wants more.The woman is more, the woman is all.
— James Franco, Straight James/Gay James
My brave husband came back from fighting the Turks and brought me a robe of silk and a necklace of human teeth. He sat up at night by his hearth telling tales of battle. Apparently the Turks are ten times more ferocious and fearless than the Scots. 'Perhaps we should invite them here to drive the Scots back,' I suggested, and he laughed, but he didn't kiss me. That's when I learned the truth about scars. A man with a battle scar is a veteran, a hero, given an honoured place at the fire. Small boys gaze up fascinated, dreaming of winning such badges of courage. Maids caress his thighs with their buttocks as they bend over to mull his ale. Women cluck and cosset, and if in time other men grow a little weary of that tale of honour, then they call for his cup to be filled again and again until he is fuddled and dozes quietly in the warmth of the embers. But a scarred woman is not encouraged to tell her story. Boys jeer and mothers cross themselves. Pregnant women will not come close for fear that if they look upon such a sight, the infant in their belly will be marked. You've heard of the tales of Beauty and the Beast no doubt. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul beneath the hideous visage. But you've never heard the tale of the handsome man falling for the monstrous woman and finding joy in her love, because it doesn't happen, not even in fairytales. The truth is that the scarred woman's husband buys her a good thick veil and enquires about nunneries for the good of her health. He spends his days with his falcons and his nights instructing pageboys in their duties. For if nothing else, the wars taught him how to be a diligent master to such pretty lads.
— Karen Maitland, Company of Liars
Women have become trained to be lone soldiers online, knowing that to send up a signal flare for help is more likely to attract enemies than allies.
— Violet Blue, The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy
It’s important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.
— Amelia Boynton Robinson
If you want to impress a lady, respect her, because respect is an impressive act itself
— Nitin Yaduvanshi, Absolute Love Letter
Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid, now its time for you to build on it and get to work.
— Amelia Boynton Robinson
But men are funny about their wars, they act as if they own them, and perhaps they do, for I don't think women ever start them.
— Pippa Goldschmidt, The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space
[We're] going to change the world. One day they'll write about us. You'll see.
— Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Gospel music is nothing but singing of good tidings -- spreading the good news. It will last as long as any music because it is sung straight from the human heart.
— Mahalia Jackson
OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABESIt is a pity that we often succeed in our endeavors to deceive each other. ~Empress Irene~
— Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di
What a major mistake, having rejected pretty much all of the great talented female artists that have lived throughout the ages, art history is left incomplete. The validity of the written art history is as absent as those women left out.
— Siren Waroe
Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.
— Emma Donoghue, Frog Music
Biology is destiny only for girls.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
Every woman feels. It just takes the right man to make things combust.
— Barbara Delinsky, Blueprints
Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose.
— Toni Morrison, Jazz
When the truth emerges, it can’t be ignored. Nor will it wait.
— Barbara Delinsky, Blueprints
Being friends is different from being lovers. It’s a sea change.
— Barbara Delinsky, Blueprints
Most sexually adventurous women want a man who regards cunnilingus as a basic woman right.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
And since we all came from a woman Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman I wonder why we take from our women Why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think it's time to kill for our women Time to heal our women, be real to our women And if we don't we'll have a race of babies That will hate the ladies, that make the babies And since a man can't make one He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one So will the real men get up I know you're fed up ladies, but keep your head up
— 2Pac
I had to revise all my feelings once again. I pulled out the dregs of affection from the glass of misunderstanding to rebuild my faith. I had to reinvent the cause for love, as it were. It was something I had to draw inside me, a real portrait of her, not just the inspiration but the girl as a whole, with all her shortcomings to be able to love her again.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women.
— Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.
— Barbara Delinsky, Blueprints
You are a devious woman, Blackthorn,' she said. 'I prefer the term strategic thinker.
— Juliet Marillier, Tower of Thorns
She had one of those husky voices that sounded as if she were permanently coming down with a cold. Men seemed to find that sexy in a woman, which Jackson thought was odd because it made women sound less like women and more like men. Maybe it was a gay thing.
— Kate Atkinson, Case Histories
Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work—and what to do when they break.
— Barbara Delinsky, Blueprints
I think she's too single for me, and she thinks I'm with two other people. She also thinks she thinks, I think.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
don't think you can ever forget her don't even try she's not going to budgeno choice but to grant her spacecrown her with skyfor she is one of the manyand she is each of us
— Rita Dove, On the Bus With Rosa Parks
We are all daughters of God in various stages of construction.
— Shannon L. Alder
[Men] are incomprehensible animals... They walk about boasting of their wisdom, strength, and sovereignty, while they have not sense so much as to swallow an apple with the aid of an Eve to put it down their throats.
— Frances Wright
Maybe curiosity did kill your cat. But it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on the neighbor's rottweiler just the same.
— Lois Greiman, Unzipped
Honest friends is kinda nice, but it's hard to beat a big-ass lie and a six-pack of brewskies.
— Lois Greiman, Unzipped
Annie Taliaferro had that hammerhead look about her, like a breachy range cow, or a bunch-quitting steer.
— Clifton Adams
Even choosing the perfect dinner wine loses its earth-shattering importance if your guests happen to be cannibals, and you, the unsuspecting entree.
— Lois Greiman, Unzipped
She shuffled with her head bowed, her dark eyes drifting to avoid contact, and she screamed in bed at night. (Dark City Lights)
— Jim Fusilli
I was married, a mom, and a career woman—the holy trinity of women in the twenty-first century. The three expressions were truly distinct, but the unity of them created the essence. I must confess I felt in control, much more than I felt blessed.
— Sharon Nir
Since she's discoveredmen would rather drownthan nibble,she does just fine.
— Rita Dove, On the Bus With Rosa Parks
Women invented misery, but we don't understand it.
— Rita Dove, On the Bus With Rosa Parks
Some people are so much heaven to the square inch that life is simply hell, when she leaves you in order to go south for the winter. (Yes, women are people too, sometimes even threee.)
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
I was banished from that world forever, I knew. I couldn't go back now. One day soon I would go away from here entirely; I would leave this house, perhaps never to return.I hugged myself, comforting my fear. Very well then, I thought, I will be my own house. I will build myself a house out of my own flesh and bones where my frightened child-self can find shelter. After all, isn't that one of the things that women do? We are houses for our children, shielding them from harm within the stronghold of our bodies, until they are strong enough to breathe and walk alone. So surely I must be able to give myself shelter now.
— Patrice Kindl
I am now a faded image of my former being,I let that persona go.I like myself for who I am and I choose to be, me.
— Tina J. Richardson
The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the day you dishonor your children, your parents and your God. If someone doesn't see your worth the problem is them, not people outside your relationship.
— Shannon L. Alder
All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it.
— Charles Bukowski, Women
DON'T SAY, DODo not say thingsYou think I want to hear.Instead,Say what you sincerely mean,And really intend to do.Do not think you are helping meBy occasionallyBeing here or there,If you really have no intentionOf holding my handAll the way through.Do not say you care for me,If you do not careWhenever I'm clearlyDown and blue.And do not want what's best For you,If you do not wish the bestFor me too.Do not calculate gifts or deedsOr your giving will never feelGenuinely true.Just say what you meanAnd mean what you say, And let's lay these down –  As our love'sGolden rules.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
You will never choose love greater than what you believe you deserve and what other insecure people tell your lack of self esteem to have faith in.
— Shannon L. Alder
It is quite certain that the skirt means female dignity, not female submission; it can be proved by the simplest of all tests. No ruler would deliberately dress up in the recognized fetters of a slave; no judge would would appear covered with broad arrows. But when men wish to be safely impressive, as judges, priests or kings, they do wear skirts, the long, trailing robes of female dignity. The whole world is under petticoat government; for even men wear petticoats when they wish to govern.
— G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
Female competition is when you are with a guy you like and you look around, see that you're the prettiest girl in the vicinity and feel a huge sense of relief that there's no one to take the attention away from you. (Female competition is a result of women feeling like their greatest sense of self worth , identity and influence comes from their sexual appeal to men. Many women don't even realise they are feeling this way and it's a subconscious thing, but they notice themselves getting jealous when they see other women who they think men would find sexually appealing.)
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.
— Neil Gaiman
He would never understand women, he thought. They were life’s great mystery.
— Conn Iggulden, Khan: Empire of Silver
Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.
— Stefan Molyneux
And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
There's more women likes to be loved than there is of those that loves.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
Until I find a home in a human, art has my heart.
— Nikki Rowe
Abort the thought, save the baby
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
A woman's income appeal is a bell-shaped curve: men do not want to date low-earning women, but once a woman starts earning too much, they seem to be scared off.
— Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Laura never again came to the drugstore as long as I continued to work there.The next time I saw her, she was a wreck of a woman, notorious around black Roxbury, in and out of jail. She had finished high school, but by then she was already going the wrong way.Defying her grandmother, she had started going out late and drinking liquor.This led to dope, and that to selling herself to men. Learning to hate the men who bought her, she also became a Lesbian. One of the shames I have carried for years is that I blame myself for all of this.To have treated her as I did for a white woman made the blow doubly heavy.The only excuse I can offer is that like so many of my black brothers today, I was just deaf, dumb, and blind.
— Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
it's telling yourself that you want the things that society tells you you should want. women thikn that survival depends on conformity. but for some women, conformity is death. it's a death to the soul. the soul, "she said, "is a precious thing. when you live a lie, you damage the soul.
— Candace Bushnell, Lipstick Jungle
She drew gallantry from men as the sun drew water. Her pertness enchanted them. Young men went away from her with a feeling of bravado. Old men were enslaved by her silver curls. Something about her was forever female and made all men virile.
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling
I must confess that I do not understand why things are so arranged, that women seize us by the nose as deftly as they do the handle of a teapot: either their hands are so constructed, or else our noses are good for nothing else.
— Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat and Other Works by Nicolai Gogol
Ah, well,' the Wizard said. 'I gather from all this-I shall make a note-that sometimes one must sacrifice for love.'Mirabelle looked intently at the Wizard. 'On the other hand,' the cat said at last, 'sometimes one must refuse to sacrifice.
— Jeanne Desy, The Princess Who Stood on Her Own Two Feet
Never ask a woman about other men.Either she'll tell you a lie, and you still won't know, or if she tells you the truth, you might not have wanted to hear it in the first place.
— Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
There is a sneakiness about girls that they keep hid under sweetness and pouting and crying.
— Michael Lee West, Crazy Ladies
Why was it that nine men out of ten thought women were incapable of doing anything but boiling potatoes? she thought furiously, and felt a savage sympathy for members of the Women's Lib movement, which up until now she had always faintly despised.
— Sue Peters, Wheels of Conflict
Daughter, I’m not crying now because I’m fed up or regret that the Lord created me a woman. No, it’s not that. It’s just that I’m sad about my life and my youth that have come and gone without my knowing how to live them really and truly as a woman.knowing how to live them really and truly as a woman.
— Alifa Rifaat
Despite what people think based on my opinion writing, I very much like men. They're interesting to me, and I mostly wish they would be better about how they treat women so I wouldn't have to call them out so often.
— Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
For the khan, we will take their cities, their women, and their lands. This is the great raid, the farthest strike in the history of the nation of Genghis. We will not be stopped.
— Conn Iggulden, Khan: Empire of Silver
I especially like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison.
— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
— Rob Siltanen
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
— Leo Tolstoy
Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
— Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
— Albert Einstein
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
You can't stop the futureYou can't rewind the pastThe only way to learn the secret...is to press play.
— Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.
— Walt Whitman
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions
—  they cease to be mind.
The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.
— Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
— George Bernard Shaw
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.
— Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
— Mother Teresa
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
— Eckhart Tolle
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
— William Jennings Bryan
Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.
— Taylor Swift
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Fashion changes, but style endures.
— Coco Chanel
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
— Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point
You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this.
— Taylor Swift
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.
— Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol in His Own Words
Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered-- that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can't imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
— Sophocles, Antigone
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.
— Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late
I was, but then I realized that I was holding on to something that didn't exist anymore. That the person I missed didn't exist anymore. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And we can wish they couldn't all day long but that never works.
— Sarah Ockler, Fixing Delilah
No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.Or you don't.
— Stephen King, The Stand
To improve is to change
—  to be perfect is to change often.
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
— Brené Brown
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.
— Bryce Courtenay
Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.
— Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
Let him who would move the world first move himself.
— Socrates
A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.
— Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood
Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
— Leo Tolstoy
You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.
— Sue Grafton, T is for Trespass
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.
— Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
We are the change we have been waiting for.
— Barack Obama
Change is the end result of all true learning.
— Leo Buscaglia
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
— William James
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
— Thomas L. Friedman
This was when I learned that you have to give up your life as you know it to get a new one: that sometimes you need to let go of everything you're clinging to and start over, whether because you've outgrown it or because it's not working anymore, or because it was wrong for you in the first place.
— Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.
— William James
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
— Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
— Rob Siltanen
Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.
— Charles R. Swindoll
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
— Katharine Hepburn
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
— Dan Millman Way of the Peaceful Warrior A Book That Changes Lives
Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.
— Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
— Barack Obama
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor
—  he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.
— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence. 
— H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
You should never make fun of something that a person can't change about themselves.
— Phil Lester
See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.
— A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz
The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.
— Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not sure who the first person was who said that. Probably Shakespeare. Or maybe Sting. But at the moment, it's the sentence that best explains my tragic flaw, my inability to change. I don't think I'm alone in this. The more I get to know other people, the more I realize it's kind of everyone's flaw. Staying exactly the same for as long as possible, standing perfectly still... It feels safer somehow. And if you are suffering, at least the pain is familiar. Because if you took that leap of faith, went outside the box, did something unexpected... Who knows what other pain might be out there, waiting for you. Chances are it could be even worse. So you maintain the status quo. Choose the road already traveled and it doesn't seem that bad. Not as far as flaws go. You're not a drug addict. You're not killing anyone... Except maybe yourself a little. When we finally do change, I don't think it happens like an earthquake or an explosion, where all of a sudden we're like this different person. I think it's smaller than that. The kind of thing most people wouldn't even notice unless they looked at us really close. Which, thank God, they never do. But you notice it. Inside you that change feels like a world of difference. And you hope this is it. This is the person you get to be forever... that you'll never have to change again.
— Laura J. Burns
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
— John Dryden
There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we do not need to be too desperate, too ruthless, too combative. Along the way to usefulness and happiness, many of those things will change themselves, and the others can be worked on as we go. The first thing we need to do is recognize and trust our own Inner Nature, and not lose sight of it.
— Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the f
— John F. Kennedy
Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.
— Robin S. Sharma, The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artists who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances.An artists is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artists takes it personally.That's why Bob Dylan is an artist, but an anonymous corporate hack who dreams up Pop 40 hits on the other side of the glass is merely a marketer. That's why Tony Hsieh, founder of Zappos, is an artists, while a boiler room of telemarketers is simply a scam.Tom Peters, corporate gadfly and writer, is an artists, even though his readers are businesspeople. He's an artists because he takes a stand, he takes the work personally, and he doesn't care if someone disagrees. His art is part of him, and he feels compelled to share it with you because it's important, not because he expects you to pay him for it.Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
— Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.
— Seth Godin
Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there will forever be a Before and an After...I knew there would be no turning back if I designated this moment as my own Prime Meridian from which everything else would be measured.
— Justina Chen, North of Beautiful
You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon. 
— Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.
— H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
Every hundred feet the world changes
— Roberto Bolaño, 2666
All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you're green.
— Tess Callahan
Tomorrow you promise yourself will be different, yet tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.
— James T. McCay
But, she knew, you didn’t have to marry your soulmate, and you didn’t even have to marry an Interesting. You didn’t always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep with you, or be the one who wrote and starred in the play that got the standing ovation. You could cease to be obsessed with the idea of being interesting.
— Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings
The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a few winters? We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.
— Alan Cohen
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change
—  what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
— John Steinbeck
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
— Abraham H. Maslow
Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
— Anatole France
She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.
— Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.
— Arundhati Roy
If you really love someone,' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.
— Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project
People don't resist change. They resist being changed.
— Peter M. Senge
Already things are changing; it´s starting with small shit but oh it´s starting, the change, the irrevocable, impossible change.
— Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce