A woman is like a teabag. It’s only when she’s in hot water that you realize how strong she is.Nancy ReaganAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Encouragement for women
Short selections recovered from GADEL’s original collection. Wording is kept as found; the archived attribution is not a verification of authorship.
As long as you don’t forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.Isabelle HollandAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.Judy GarlandAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.Eleanor RooseveltAttributed in the original GADEL collection
A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.Rhonda HansomeAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.Ella FitzgeraldAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.Louisa May AlcottAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.Oprah WinfreyAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.Harriet Beecher StoweAttributed in the original GADEL collection
A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.Arnold HaultainAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Don’t wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.Mary Manin MorrisseyAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well.Martha GrahamAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Men have the grand vision, and they pass it on to somebody else to put into practice.Mary Eugenia CharlesAttributed in the original GADEL collection
I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.Mary WollstonecraftAttributed in the original GADEL collection
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!Charlotte BronteAttributed in the original GADEL collection
I’m not happy, I’m cheerful.Beverly SillsAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.Jennifer AnnistonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman!Sojourner TruthAttributed in the original GADEL collection
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.Barbara De AngelisAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Men build houses; women build homes.American proverbTraditional attribution
Instruct a man, you instruct an individual. Instruct a woman, you instruct a nation.Moroccan proverbTraditional attribution
A man will never heed the voice of a woman until it is too late.African proverbTraditional attribution
I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.Bl. Mother Teresa of CalcuttaAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead.Paula WhiteAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Original collection & source
Original title: Encouraging Words for Today’s Woman
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