Best Barbara Streisand Quotes

It’s also important to realize that it’s okay to be the first. If you constantly look for role models who look like you, then there won’t be any firsts.

— Condoleezza Rice, Remarks at the Women's Conference 2008

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In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.

— Margaret Thatcher, 50 Classic Quotes About Why Women Are Better Than Men

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I love bossy women. Some people hate the word, and I understand how ‘bossy’ can seem like a shitty way to describe a woman with a determined point of view, but for me, a bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

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Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

— Charlotte Whitton, 50 Badass Quotes From 50 Badass Women

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I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry.

— Sonia Johnson, 50 Badass Quotes From 50 Badass Women

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After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.'

— Anna Quindlen, 34 Greatest Quotes About What It Means To Be A Woman

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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

— Melinda Gates, Melinda Gates shares scalable ways to invest in women

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For if a woman have an innocent, unsuspecting soul as delicate as the curled cup of a Nile lily, the more easily will it droop and wither in the heated grasp of a careless, cruel hand.

— Marie Corelli, Thelma

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...one day there will be girls and women whose name will no longer just signify the opposite of the male but something in their own right, something which does not make one think of any supplement or limit but only of life and existence: the female human being.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (Penguin Classics)

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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

— Melinda Gates, Melinda French Gates - 2003 Powerful Voices Luncheon

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The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

— Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

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Having a mother is complicated and fraught. Not having a mother is complicated and fraught. Being a mother is complicated and fraught. Not being a mother is complicated and fraught. Sending love to you today, whatever your relationship with motherhood.

— Celeste Ng, via twitter.com

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Rebecca: Umm, my ovaries are eking out into my Fallopian tubes and they're wrapped around...

Darryl: Okay, we'll see you when you're feeling better.

Rebecca: Wow, men are stupid.

— Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom), Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Season 1: I Hope Josh Comes to My Party!

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Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
Just like the first time, said he didn't care

— PJ Harvey, PJ Harvey - Sheela Na Gig (Dry)

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Barbara Streisand Quotes

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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

— Barbara Streisand, 34 Greatest Quotes About What It Means To Be A Woman

I've been there with my heart out in my hand, but what you must understand, you can't let the chance to love him pass you by.

— Barbara Streisand, Tell Him

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… A woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

— Barbara Streisand, 34 Greatest Quotes About What It Means To Be A Woman

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It’s also important to realize that it’s okay to be the first. If you constantly look for role models who look like you, then there won’t be any firsts.

— Condoleezza Rice, Remarks at the Women's Conference 2008

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.

— Margaret Thatcher, 50 Classic Quotes About Why Women Are Better Than Men

I love bossy women. Some people hate the word, and I understand how ‘bossy’ can seem like a shitty way to describe a woman with a determined point of view, but for me, a bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.

— Amy Poehler, Yes Please

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

— Charlotte Whitton, 50 Badass Quotes From 50 Badass Women

I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry.

— Sonia Johnson, 50 Badass Quotes From 50 Badass Women

After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.'

— Anna Quindlen, 34 Greatest Quotes About What It Means To Be A Woman

When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

— Melinda Gates, Melinda Gates shares scalable ways to invest in women

For if a woman have an innocent, unsuspecting soul as delicate as the curled cup of a Nile lily, the more easily will it droop and wither in the heated grasp of a careless, cruel hand.

— Marie Corelli, Thelma

...one day there will be girls and women whose name will no longer just signify the opposite of the male but something in their own right, something which does not make one think of any supplement or limit but only of life and existence: the female human being.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (Penguin Classics)

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

— Melinda Gates, Melinda French Gates - 2003 Powerful Voices Luncheon

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

— Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

Having a mother is complicated and fraught. Not having a mother is complicated and fraught. Being a mother is complicated and fraught. Not being a mother is complicated and fraught. Sending love to you today, whatever your relationship with motherhood.

— Celeste Ng, via twitter.com

Rebecca: Umm, my ovaries are eking out into my Fallopian tubes and they're wrapped around...

Darryl: Okay, we'll see you when you're feeling better.

Rebecca: Wow, men are stupid.

— Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom), Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Season 1: I Hope Josh Comes to My Party!

Gonna wash that man right out of my hair
Just like the first time, said he didn't care

— PJ Harvey, PJ Harvey - Sheela Na Gig (Dry)

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