Over many centuries women have been the great forgotten ones in history
Of course, that does not mean that they did not contribute to the advancement of society or that they did not have a rich psychological life. Below you can see a selection of phrases from women in which you can sense their concerns, motivations and reflections.
These reflections and phrases from women are not listed in any specific order and, if you think there are other interesting quotes that could have been included, you can leave them in the comments section.
1. We cannot let the limited perceptions of others define us (Virginia Satir)
This psychotherapist talks here about how we create self-image and self-concept.
2. If you want to travel far, there is no better ship than a book (Emily Dickinson)
As a poet that Emily Dickinson was, it is normal that she would express this attachment to literature.
3. The best life is not the longest lasting, but rather the one that is full of good actions (Marie Curie)
A reflection from one of the most important scientists in history.
4. We are not born as a woman, but we become one (Simone de Beauvoir)
The philosopher Simone de Beauvoir focused the focus of her thinking on the study of gender and feminism, and in this phrase one of her most important ideas appears formulated: gender as something non-biological.
5. Those who do not move do not notice their chains (Rosa Luxemburg)
This Marxist theorist expressed in this way an apparent paradox: the existence of oppressed people who are not aware of it.
6. Dance is a poem of which each movement is a word (Mata Hari)
This well-known dancer talks about the properties of dance.
7. I paint myself because I am the one I know best (Frida Kahlo)
One of the best-known phrases of this artist.
8. Understanding is a two-way street (Eleanor Roosevelt)
A very graphic way of conceptualizing understanding as a two-way link.
9. You cannot shake hands with someone who keeps a closed fist (Indira Gandhi)
A reflection steeped in anti-war.
10. It would be good to be less curious about people and more about ideas (Marie Curie)
Another of Marie Curie’s phrases; It can be interpreted as a reflection of her analytical mentality.
11. Happiness in marriage is a matter of pure luck (Jane Austen)
Jane Austen was characterized by her sardonic and dispassionate way of seeing things, and here this characteristic can be sensed. This is one of the most remembered phrases of Pride and Prejudice.
12. Blindness separates us from the things around us, but deafness separates us from people (Helen Keller)
A reflection on the deprivation of sensory stimuli.
13. If we want to be cautious, we should not take high self-confidence as if it were a guarantee of something (Elizabeth Loftus)
This renowned psychologist talks about one of the conclusions she drew from her research.
14. Living is like moving through a museum: it is then that you begin to understand what you have seen (Audrey Hepburn)
Phrases from influential women not only have to do with philosophers or scientists. In this one, Audrey Hepburn, an actress in blockbuster movies, offers this thoughtful suggestion
15. The most revolutionary thing a person can do is to always say out loud what is really happening (Rosa Luxemburgo)
Another of Rosa Luxemburg’s quotes, this time about the right to express oneself.
16. The body is made to be seen, not to be covered (Marilyn Monroe)
Marilyn Monroe embodied the liberation of certain sexual taboos in relation to women.
17. We do not see things as they really are, but rather we see them as we are (Anaïs Nin)
Projection is, for this writer, a constant in our way of perceiving reality.
18. If you can’t give me poetry, can you give me poetic science? (Ada Lovelace)
Ada Lovelace’s passion for science, poetry and mathematics is captured here.
19. Beauty is how you feel inside, and it is reflected in your eyes (Sophia Loren)
A reflection on beauty, self-esteem and the public image we give.
20. Dancing: the greatest intelligence in the freest body (Isadora Duncan)
Poetic definition from the hand of one of the most important dancers.
22. If someone betrays you once it is their fault, but if they betray you twice, then the fault will be yours (Eleanor Roosevelt)
A phrase that is attached to a recommendation of caution.
23. Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t make it a secret (Mary Kay Ash)
Advice aimed at making others happy.
24. The greatest danger that the future holds for us is apathy (Jane Goodall)
This primatologist’s way of conceiving the times ahead is captured here.
25. Safety is basically a superstition (Helen Keller)
For this thinker, security is an illusion that allows us to live with a certain order but does not allow us to see beyond certain mental frameworks.
26. In the dark, the things around us do not seem more real than dreams (Murasaki Shikibu)
A reflection from one of the most important Japanese writers in history.
27. Freedom is always freedom for those who think differently (Rosa Luxemburgo)
A way of conceiving freedom by seeking it where its existence is tested.
28. Life would be so wonderful if we knew what to do with it… (Greta Garbo)
An existential reflection by Greta Garbo.
29. Interpretation is internal, but it must be externalized (Sarah Bernhardt)
A phrase about the tasks of the actor and actress when it comes to giving up their bodies to allow characters to emerge.
30. I can’t stop while there are lives to save (Edith Cavell)
Edith Cavell saved dozens of lives during World War I, and In this phrase he expresses his strong motivation to help others
31. All that matters are those friends you call at 4 am (Marlene Dietrich)
It may seem like a somewhat frivolous thought, but it is actually a totally valid reflection on friendship.
33. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all (Helen Keller)
An invitation to live life daringly.
34. Fury cannot solve any problem (Grace Kelly)
About the futility of anger (something many evolutionary psychologists would argue with, mind you).
35. Society only takes care of you as long as you are profitable (Simone de Beauvoir)
A cold way of seeing certain bonds of mutual aid that are created in society.
36. When we can’t keep dreaming, we die (Emma Goldman)
The importance of the possibility of imagining a better future.
37. Life is the process of becoming (Anaïs Nin)
Life understood as something that develops over time.
38. Sex: in America, an obsession, in other parts of the world, a fact (Marlene Dietrich)
In this selection of women’s phrases there is also room for humor. Why not?
39. Independence is happiness (Susan B. Anthony)
Practically a life slogan due to its brevity and simplicity.
40. Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in a single person (Isadora Duncan)
Another reflection on the nature of dance.
41. The intellectual, the moral and the religious seem to be interrelated in a harmonious whole (Ada Lovelace)
Ada Lovelace’s interests went far beyond mathematics, and also extended to the philosophical and social.
42. It is always the simple that generates the wonderful (Amelia Barr)
A way of thinking about beauty as something that germinates in minimalism.
43. There is nothing more beautiful than laughter (Frida Kahlo)
A small sample of vitalism on the part of this artist.
44. Peace cannot be found by avoiding life (Virginia Woolf)
Life is a source of conflicts that we have to know how to face in the best possible way.
45. If you follow all the rules you miss all the fun (Katharine Hepburn)
Fun is something worth not losing sight of when it comes to relating to the rules, according to this actress.
46. ​​There are no distances when you have a reason (Jane Austen)
Distance is also a relative element beyond Einstein’s theories.
47. Getting older is not for the weak (Bette Davies)
The aging process can be seen as part of personal evolution.
48. It is our decisions that show who we really are, more than our abilities (JK Rowling)
One of the phrases of the most important author of youth literature so far in the 21st century.
49. My imagination makes me human and makes me ignorant; It gives me a whole world, and makes me exile from it (Ursula K. Le Guin)
As a science fiction writer, Ursula K. Le Guin feels close and at the same time far from the worlds she imagined.
50. The issues of politics are too serious to be left to politicians (Hanna Arendt)
For this philosopher, politics is something that should be done on the street by ordinary people
51. Love is the difficult discovery that there is something beyond oneself that is real (Iris Murdoch)
The emotional bonds established in love also represent a transcendental discovery that unites us with someone in a unique way.
52. A man’s fantasy is a woman’s best weapon (Sophia Loren)
A somewhat conflictive way of seeing the relationship between the sexes, but one that has been widely exploited in the film world.
53. One never becomes better, but different and older, and that is always a pleasure (Gertrude Stein)
Growing can simply be changing, not progressing, without that entailing drama.
54. It is more difficult to kill a ghost than a reality (Virginia Woolf)
A poetic way of seeing the personal dramas we face.
55. People looked at me as if I were a mirror (Marilyn Monroe)
One of the phrases of a woman who became famous partly for her image and who, however, felt alienated.
56. There is no worse agony than carrying with us a story that has not been told (Maya Angelou)
A phrase about the stories that deserve to be told.
57. A scientist believes in ideas, not people (Marie Curie)
Another phrase about Marie Curie’s analytical mentality focused on demonstrating hypotheses empirically.
58. Children should be educated how to think, not what they should think (Margaret Mead)
This anthropologist differentiates between education on formal thinking and the content of this thinking.
59. Fate is a word we use to look back on choices with dramatic consequences (JK Rowling)
The concept of destiny can be seen as something that only serves to see past dramas with better eyes.
60. I don’t see the misery that exists but the beauty that still remains (Anne Frank)
One of Anne Frank’s phrases most remembered for its positivity.
61. If you only have a smile, give it to someone you love (Maya Angelou)
Another invitation to share expressions of appreciation and affection.
62. There is no charm that can be compared to the tenderness of the heart (Jane Austen)
Quote from one of the most important writers of the 18th century.
63. When one door of happiness closes, another opens (Hellen Keller)
This is a phrase widely used as a source of optimism and motivation.
64. Few of us are what we seem (Agatha Christie)
A statement whose value lies, in part, in being supported by one of the references of the crime novel.
65. One never sees what has been done, but rather sees what remains to be done (Marie Curie)
The idea that we always see the possibilities and potential of the situations we experience, and not so much what we have to experience.
66. We only have to remember what is pleasant about the past (Jane Austen)
Memory and its recesses.
67. Where there is no fight there is no strength (Oprah Winfrey)
The effort of facing difficulties can be uplifting.
68. When there are large sums of money at stake, it is best not to trust anyone (Agatha Christie)
Egoism gains weight when the possibilities of concentrating many goods increase, according to this idea.
69. A woman’s worst enemy is the pulpit (Susan B. Anthony)
One of the most groundbreaking phrases of this American suffragette.
70. The first idea that a child must learn is the difference between good and evil (Maria Montessori)
An idea very applicable to teaching in schools, but also to the time of parents.
71. We must tell our young women that their voices matter (Malala)
This activist born in Pakistan fights for new generations of women to be aware of their legitimacy to act and make decisions just like men.
72. The eyes of the rest, our prisons; Your thoughts, our cages (Virginia Woolf)
Social pressure can strongly condition our lives.
73. Virtue can only flourish among equals (Mary Wollstonecraft)
The best facets of the human being are only visible when there is no domination of one over the other.
74. We do not have a society if we destroy the environment (Margaret Mead)
We do not live isolated from the rest of the planet, this is an extension of our existence.
75. What makes us human is the ability to ask questions (Jane Goodall)
Curiosity directs our intellect.
76. Each person should live their life as a model for others (Rosa Parks)
This leader in the fight for equality defends the idea of ​​inspiring others by doing good.
77. Adventure has value in itself (Amelia Earhart)
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to cross the Atlantic as an aviator. In this phrase she captures her adventurous spirit.
78. The purest test of discipline is its absence (Clara Barton)
A reflection on the temptation of not doing the right thing when no one is looking.
79. The only thing better than singing is singing more (Ella Fitzgerald)
80. Love only dies when growth stops (Pearl S. Buck)
The end of that emotional bond comes when we no longer have motivations or references.
81. A ship in a harbor is safe, but that’s not what a ship is built for (Grace Hopper)
This pioneer of programming languages ​​talks about the need to get out of the comfort zone.
82. For a long time, society has placed obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences (Sally Ride)
This astronaut was the first American woman to explore outer space.
83. When men kill, our job as women is to fight for the preservation of life (Clara Zetkin)
War has been an exclusively male phenomenon for much of history,
84. Organized labor is a necessary component of democracy (Dolores Huerta)
This worker rights activist speaks about the need to establish policies that generate real equality, not just theoretical.
85. Finding joy in your work is like discovering the fountain of youth (Pearl S. Buck)
Getting involved in stimulating work is like being a child again with a new toy.
86. If I can’t dance, your revolution doesn’t interest me (Emma Goldman)
A great phrase that revolutionaries have used to denote that social change must occur from joviality and respect for women.
87. The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in the history of humanity (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
A reflection on the dark past of many women.
88. Feminism is a courageous protest of an entire sex against the positive diminution of its personality (Clara Campoamor)
About the fight for real equality.
89. Love has been the opium of women, like religion that of the masses. While we loved, men ruled (Kate Millet)
About the idea of ​​romantic love, and why it is so pernicious.
90. The level of civilization that various human societies have reached is in proportion to the independence that women enjoy (Flora Tristán)
Two variables that necessarily correlate.
91. Strong men don’t need to humiliate women to feel powerful (Michelle Obama)
A phrase about power dynamics between genders.
92. Although I am not yours, I can never be anyone else’s (Mary Shelley)
A reflection on love and freedom.
93. The more a person grows, the more they forgive (Catherine the Great)
This Russian empress thus described psychological maturation.
94.We realize the importance of our voices only when we are quiet (Malala)
A reflection on freedom of expression.
95. I don’t care if a person is rich or poor: once a friend, always my friend (Charlotte of Prussia)
A declaration of intentions about friendship.
96. Anyone who starts working in politics knows that money is not the priority (Angela Merkel)
The German chancellor talks about the sacrifices in her field of work.
97. No girl would go to the altar if she had enough information (Queen Victoria)
A criticism of what marriage has been for women for many centuries.
98. Never make decisions based on fear; make decisions based on hope and possibility (Michelle Obama)
Advice on how to act in pressure situations.
99. The time has come for the woman who thinks, judges, rejects or accepts, and the time has died for the woman who assists, tied and powerless, in the capricious political development of the destinies of her country (Eva Perón)
A phrase that indicates the change of times.
100. Science and daily life should not be separated (Rosalin Franklin)
Another of the most important scientists in history talks about the importance of research.
