Quotes from Women

I think one's talent is growth inside one, I do not think one can
explain growth.  It is silent and subtle.  One does not keep digging up
a plant to see how it grows.
	-Emily Carr (1871 - 1945)
	 Canadian artist and writer

Pressure can change you into something quite precious, quite wonderful,
quite beautiful and extremely hard.
	-Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
	 African - American writer

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
	-Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888)
	  American writer

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
		- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
		   American First Lady, writer, and lecturer

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one
day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
		- Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
	  American writer



Find the place within where you know your own self-worth, the part  of
you that is pure love and self-acceptance.
		- Louise Hay (b. 1926)
	   American writer

It's never too late to be what you might have been.
		- George Eliot [Mary Ann Evan] (1819 - 1880)
	   British writer

Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.
	- Margaret Walker (b. 1915)
	  African - American writer

We turn older with years, but newer everyday.
		- Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
	   American Poet