Words to Live By: Famous Women on Life and Love

Celebrate Women's History Month with wisdom from some of the most enduring and powerful female voices to talk about love, life, marriage and sex

"A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after."
--Gloria Steinem

"I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes."
--Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Good sex is like good Bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”
--Mae West

 

"I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart."
--Alice Walker

“The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.”
--Nora Ephron

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
--Maya Angelou

"No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor."
--Betty Freidan

“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.”
--Dorothy Parker

"I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name."
--Emily Dickinson

"If you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best."
--Marilyn Monroe

"For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.'
--Isabel Allende

“Above all, be the heroine of your own life, not the victim.”
--Nora Ephron

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