I do not want to die...until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. -Kathe Kollwitz People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best. -Bette Midler You don't have to have a title or position to be effective. -Wilma Mankiller Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. -Pearl S. Buck No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent, work transforms talent into genius. -Anna Pavlova What I have done in my life I have done because I wanted to do it and because it interested me. I just happen to be a woman, and I don't believe it has made much difference. -Mary Leakey It was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy. -Marie Curie There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves, and it becomes either good or sour inside. -Pearl Bailey Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it. -Kitty Kelley I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm really competing with is me. -Wilma Rudolph It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you. -Lillian Hellman The giving of love is an education in itself. -Eleanor Roosevelt Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. -Pearl S. Buck What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. -Helen Keller Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident in life, not all of it. -Susan B. Anthony No partner in a love relationship should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. -May Sarton Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open, and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. -Dorothy Parker Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -Joan Crawford Only love can be divided endlessly and still not be diminished. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price. -Agatha Christie Comrades, I say to you, Spare no effort, struggle unceasingly, That at last peace may come to our people. And jewelled dresses and deformed feet will be abandoned. And one day, all under heaven Will see beautiful free women, Blooming like fields of flowers, And bearing brilliant and noble human beings. -Qiu Jin