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Quotes About Fulfillment

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
~ Bette Davis
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
~ Bette Davis
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.
~ Bette Davis
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for any lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
~ Bette Davis
And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be.
~ Bette Greene
Fun, like champagne bubbles, can't completely fill you up.
~ Bette Greene
I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
~ Bette Midler
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.
~ Bette Midler
The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person who can be satisfied with himself and his way of life. Eventually he ought to be able to do in his life whatever seems important, desirable, and worthwhile to him to do; to develop relations with other people that are constructive, satisfying, mutually enriching; and to bear up well under the stresses and hardships he will unavoidably encounter during his life.
~ bettelheim bruno ii
why shouldn't I dream myself into happiness? What higher reality is there than dream?
~ Bettina Brentano
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
~ Betty Bender
The most consistent sex will be your love affair with yourself.
~ Betty Dodson
Aunque venga de un amante, una bañera, un osito de peluche, un dedo, una lengua o un vibrador, un orgasmo es un orgasmo.
~ Betty Dodson
Remember, the best news of this decade is that we can have all the sex we want on our own terms with someone we love who will never abandon us once we embrace selfloving. Here's wishing you many happy orgasms.
~ Betty Dodson
The greatest satisfaction comes from mastering something that is truly difficult.
~ Betty Edwards
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?
~ Betty Friedan
No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.
~ Betty Friedan
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?
~ Betty Friedan
The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.
~ Betty Friedan
You can have it all, just not all at the same time.
~ Betty Friedan
Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative in other ways can at last be made, and is being made by many women now, without guilt.
~ Betty Friedan
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?
~ Betty Friedan
Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to a child. They deny the years when she can no longer look forward to giving birth, even if she repeats the act over and over again. In the feminine mystique, there is no other way for a woman to dream of creation or of the future. There is no other way she can even dream about herself, except as her children's mother, her husband's wife.
~ Betty Friedan
A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making her stretch and grow beyond that small score of years in which her body can fill its biological function, is committing a kind of suicide.
~ Betty Friedan