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Quotes About Challenges

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
~ Amelia Earhart
Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
~ Queen Victoria
Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.
~ Bill Copeland
Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?
~ Joan Crawford
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
~ David Ogilvy
Women: Can't live with them, can't bury them in the back yard without the neighbours seeing.
~ Unknown
I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.
~ William Shakespeare
The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.
~ Unknown
Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
~ Euripides
I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
~ Unknown
A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
~ Fannie Hurst
I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.
~ Edward Gorey
Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em.
~ Ivan Turgenev
Men and women, women and men, It will never work.
~ Erica Jong
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
A Women who can cope with the terrible twos can cope with anything.
~ Unknown
Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.
~ Oscar Wilde
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
What would bug a guy from the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded by Jews?
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
~ Charlotte Whitton
If life didn't have hurdles, there wouldn't be anything for us to do and existence wouldn't be worth it.
~ Unknown
The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task: Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.
~ Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe