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by compiled Stacy Wiebe, Editor, Christian Women Today
"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."--Anita Roddick
"A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform."--Diane Mariechild
"We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is."--Elisabeth Elliot
"We cannot do great things on this earth. We can only do small things with great love."--Mother Teresa
"Women are the real architects of society."--Harriet Beecher Stowe
"A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life--whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms."--Julia Childs
"A community is not likely to be overthrown where woman fulfills her mission, for by the power of her noble heart, she will raise it from its ruins, and restore it again to prosperity and joy."--John Angell James, Female Piety
"None of us is Superwoman. We are by turns industrious woman, harried woman, organized woman and sometimes cunning woman, because we all agree that one can always find time, in the most hard-pressed life, to do what one really wants to do, whether it is dancing the tango, playing the harp or writing a book."--Valerie Grove, The Compleat Woman
"A woman is like a teabag. It's only when she's in hot water that you realize how strong she is."--Nancy Reagan
"If a woman can only succeed by emulating men, I think it is a great loss and not a success. The aim is not only for a woman to succeed, but to keep her womanhood and let her womanhood influence society."--Suzanne Brogger
"If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything."--Florence Nightingale
"It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs."--Margaret Thatcher
"Lord, I give up all my own purposes and plans, all my own desires and hopes and ambitions, and accept Thy will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all utterly to Thee, to be Thine forever. I hand over to Thy keeping all my friendships; all the people whom I love are to take a second place in my heart. Fill me and seal me with Thy Holy Spirit. Work out Thy whole will in my life, at any cost, now and forever." --Betty Stam
"God does most of his work here by bodies half-dead, but alive in Christ."--Mary Slessor
"We won't always know whose lives we touched and made better for our having cared, because actions can sometimes have unforeseen ramifications. What's important is that you do care and you act."--Charlotte Lunsford
"Men have the grand vision, and they pass it on to somebody else to put into practice. Women follow the details more, they want to know that it is being put into practice."--Mary Eugenia Charles, prime minister, Commonwealth of Dominica
"If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; If you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything."--Dorothy Patterson
"Every experience God gives us, every person he puts in our lives, is the perfect preparation for the future that only he can see." --Corrie Ten Boom
"To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons."--Marilyn French
"Each woman is far from average in the daily heroics of her life, even though she may never receive a moment's recognition in history."--Women and Work, Newsage Press
"The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet--and from time immemorial--the woman. In the small circle of home she has never quite forgotten the particular uniquenesses of each member of the family; the spontaneity of now; the vividness of here. This is the basic substance of life. These are the individual elements that form the bigger entities like mass, future, world."--Anne Morrow Lindberg, Gift from the Sea
"Well-behaved women rarely make history."-- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; as long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down. God can do nothing while my interest is in my personal character--He will take care of this if I obey His call. In learning to love God and people as He commanded us to do, obviously your sanctification cannot but come, but not as an end in itself."--Florence Allshorn,
"I am convinced that the influence of an army of godly women will be incalculable--in our homes, our churches, and our culture. Will you be one of those women?"--Nancy Leigh DeMoss
"Women's place is where they can do the most good." --Esther Peterson
"It is time for women of biblical faith to reclaim our territory. We know the Designer. We have His instruction manual. If we don't display the Divine design of His female creation, no one will. But if we do, it will be a profound testimony to a watching, needy world."--Susan Hunt
"Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be."-- Caroline Dall, 1852
"Overall, probably two-thirds of the mission force has been an currently is female."-- The US Center for World Mission
"I don't know how we survived so many years thinking of women as a separate chapter. We are not a separate chapter. We are half the book."--Rosario Green, Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Relations
"The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the world."-- Charles Malik, former president, United Nations General Assembly
"I'm a woman / Phenomenally. / Phenomenal woman, / That's me."-- Maya Angelou
