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Quotes About Balance

Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too.
~ Geneen Roth
The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to their house. [The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.]
~ George Herbert
When women are economically empowered, the power balance changes in all areas of life.
~ Gloria Feldt
Some women and men seem to need each other.
~ Gloria Steinem
I deeply believe that men and women need each other.
~ Hanna Rosin
In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
~ Harriet Harman
Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.
~ Helen Reddy
Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
That is what I think about women: We can do so much and take care of so much that we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to fully get it all handled.
~ Hilary Duff
Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.
~ Honore de Balzac
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."
~ Honore de Balzac
Men are always trying to make the world better or worse while most women are content just to live in it.
~ Howard W. Koch
?Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
~ Isabel Allende
Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.
~ Isla Fisher
Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it starts to feel like everything.
~ Jacquelyn Mitchard
Women never use their intelligence, except when they need to prop up their intuition.
~ Jacques Deval
Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
~ Jane Austen
Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.
~ Jane Austen
I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.
~ Jane Swisshelm
John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.
~ Jerry Saltz
Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.
~ John Lennon
Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.
~ Jordana Spiro
Nowadays people consider it a disgrace to admit that they are not stressed.
~ Judith Martin
Women understand that men must often be kept from soiling themselves with the dirty little details of life in order to accomplish the big shinny jobs unimpeded.
~ Judy LaMarsh