Quotes by “famous” women?
Posted by: adonis49 on: July 15, 2011
Quotes by “famous” women?
Katia Chapoutier published a French book on 100 “Unforgivable women“. I am interested in the few quotes of famous women.
Marie Curie (1867-1934): “We never pay attention on what has been done. We see but what is left to be done. In life, nothing is to be scared of, everything is to be comprehended.” Marie received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1903 for discovering two new radioactive elements the polonium and radium.
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927): “Nudity is the truth, the beauty, and the Art.” She created a new dancing school: bare feet, nude body, an ingenious pedagogical contemporary method that endures.
Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919 assassinated in Berlin): “Liberty: It is always the liberty of the one thinking differently” She was jailed during WWI in Germany for being engaged against the war. Rosa founded the non-violent Spartacus movement after the war and the movement took to the streets.
Coco Chanel (1883-1971): “The mode is outmoded, style never! Luxury is not anathema to poverty, but to vulgarity!”
Josephine Baker (1906-1975): “I have two love: My country and Paris. Since I personify the savage on the scenes, I try my best to be civilized in life. One day, I realized that I was living in a country (USA) that made be afraid of being black. I suffocated in the USA. Many of us left, not because we wanted to leave, but because we could no longer suffer this climate of discrimination. I felt liberated in Paris”
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941, suicide): “Life is a dream. It is being awake that kills. Each one of us has his past locked inside, as old pages of a book he memorized, but close friends only read the title. There is a solitude between wife and husband, a chasm that we have to learn to respect. I have this certitude that I am becoming mad: I feel that we will not be capable of suffering one of these terrible periods…I am hearing voices and can no longer take it. Thus, I am doing what is the proper good thing to doing.” Have you read “Mrs. Dalloway”, “The Years”…
Anna Freud (1895-1982), daughter of Sigmund Freud: “The first years of life are like the preliminary steps in a chess game arrangement. Those first years guide our orientation, the style of the game. But, as long as we are not cornered Checkmate, there are still many good fights in the game. Creative minds always survive bad treatments.” Anna was also a qualified psychoanalyst and founded a specialised therapeutic clinics for children.
Alexandra David-Neel (1868-1969): “Dogs bark, cats miau: It is their nature. My nature is to doing philosophy. Select a star, never quit it from your eyes. This star will advance you very far, without pain or feeling fatigued.” At the age of 18, she rode her bicycle and toured Spain without warning her folks. Alexandra kept exploring remote countries, with obsession. She visited Tibet, the Gobi desert, China, Mongolia…and wrote diaries of her adventures. At the age of 100, Alexandra renew her passport for another long trip.
Louise Brooks (1906-1985): “The grand art of films is not composing facial and body movements, but the movements of the thoughts and soul that are transmitted in intense isolation. There are no other occupations that resemble closely slavery as the career of a movie star.” She quit acting in 1937. Have you seen “Loulou”, “A girl in every seaport”…? She wrote her autobiography “Lulu in Hollywood” in 1982.
Clara Zetkin (1857-1933). Engles (the early theoretician of communism) said: “In the family, man is the bourgeois; the woman plays the role of the proletariat”. Zetkin adopted that quote as the basis of her struggle for equal rights to women.
Note: Second part of quotes: https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/part-2-quotes-by-%E2%80%9Cfamous%E2%80%9D-women/
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