Charlotte Whitton Quotes

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

Charlotte Whitton

• Good
• Men
• Women

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Close
  • Suitcase
  • Thick

• After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Change
  • Marriage

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Good
  • Money
  • Fashion

• I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Government

• Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Men
  • Down
  • Dinner

• A lot of people have the misconception that, as a Muslim woman, I am somehow against women wearing bikinis. No, I want women to feel comfortable and confident in whatever they wear.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Women
  • Woman

• Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Learning

• I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Good
  • Book
  • Job

• In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Women
  • You
  • Sexy

• Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Women
  • American
  • Thirty

• Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

  

  Larry King
  • World
  • Good
  • Business

• The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Great
  • Team

• I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.

  

  Clark Gable
  • Time
  • Good
  • Hate

• My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Respect

• Oh, I'm completely OCD about neatness.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • About
  • Oh
  • Neatness

• But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.

  

  Peter Davison
  • Time
  • Poetry

• In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Knowledge
  • Author
  • First Place

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

  

  Charlotte Whitton
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women