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Quotes About Balance

A woman is like a horse: He who can drive her is her master.
~ Nigerian proverb
The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.
~ Mexican proverb
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive.
~ Unknown
Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.
~ Ivy Baker Priest
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation --must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.
~ Unknown
The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
~ Doris Lessing
Women are the twin halves of men.
~ Muhammad
We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.
~ Eva Burrows
Women hold up half the sky.
~ Mao Tse-Tung
Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.
~ Mae West
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
~ Marie Curie
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
~ Golda Meir
I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
~ Joel Rosenberg
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men.
~ George Eliot
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
~ Chinese Proverbs
Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
~ Gloria Steinem
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
~ Robert Graves
Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible and live long lives.
~ Maya Angelou
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
~ Barbara De Angelis
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
~ Mark Twain
Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
~ Desiderius Erasmus