Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
Alexander Pope

Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.
Marc Jacobs

I loved my mother, she's a good girl.
Charles Manson

I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.
Mike Myers

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
Emma Goldman

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
Emma Goldman

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.
Emma Goldman

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
Michel de Montaigne

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Michel de Montaigne

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
Michel de Montaigne

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Michel de Montaigne

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Michel de Montaigne

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.
Mike Krzyzewski

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Ellen DeGeneres

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
Ellen DeGeneres

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.
Dean Koontz

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Nancy Reagan

I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
Nancy Reagan

I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
Nancy Reagan

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.
Louis Farrakhan