Quotes About Legacy

There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.

It was unfortunate for other women who might come after [Margaret Thatcher] that the first woman to become prime minister was a male impersonator.

I have two daughters, it really means a lot to me to have two women standing now and being the PM.

Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.

There you go. Use your granddaughter to pick up women. That'll get you points in heaven.

Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.

There is nothing enduring in the life of a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.

The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli OHara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.

Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

I know my name will always be linked with women.

My mission in life was to make sure that there were no women walking around who didn't know me personally.

The Baby Boom has spawned an even bigger Grandma Boom. For every baby born, two women turn into grandmas.

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered.

Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.

I don't have much history - I've got Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno. That's it. That's the history of Latin women in Hollywood, really.

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.