Lets play Guess-who-and-what this person is. Who are they and what is their story/contribution? I have left their occupations out to increase the mystery.
Suzanne Vega
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honourable, brave is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
Jane Harrison
Unfortunately, sometimes people don't hear you until you scream.
Stefanie Powers
A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.
Marlo Thomas
The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?
Myrtie Barker
When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen.
Pauline Frederick
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Gertrude Stein
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania.
Dorothy Parker
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Gloria Steinem
Oh, I'm so inadequate - and I love myself.
Meg Ryan
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
Katharine Hepburn
Its the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
Tallulah Bankhead
Whenever you want to marry someone, go and have lunch with his ex-wife.
Shelley Winters
The important thing I have learnt over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
Margot Fonteyn
Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.
Deborah Kerr
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Erica Jong
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own short-comings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other peoples characters.
Margaret Halsey
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
Elizabeth Cady Staton
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
Diane Sawyer
The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.
Roseanne Barr
Kids learn more from example than anything you say. I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.
Jane Pauley
I'm not denying the women are foolish; God Almighty made them to match the men.
Aka George Eliot
True strength is delicate.
Louise Nevelson
If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem.
Glenda Jackson
A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside it is more often his nursery.
Clare Booth Luce
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Dolores Ibarruri
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
Susan Sontag
Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
Lois Wyse
You grow up the day you have you first real laugh at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.
Carole Lombard
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
Coco Chanel
The ultimate lesson all of us has to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
Maya Angelou
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin