"In The Words Of Women" ...March is National Women's History Month

MARCH IS
NATIONAL WOMEN'S
HISTORY
MONTH

The WWII era selection and quality of quotes offered

below and

for the enlightenenment of our Gentle Readers are,

at times, random

and at other times simply

personal preference...why?

"Because I can."

A WOMAN'S VOICE

“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

"This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used."

Eleanor Roosevelt

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others."
 Amelia Earhart, in her last letter to her husband, 1937.

"We realized what a spot we were in. We had to deliver the goods, or else there wouldn't ever be another chance for women pilots in any part of the service."
Cornelia Fort

"I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls."
Jacqueline Cochran

"I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it."
Marilyn Monroe

"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."
Marilyn Monroe

"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."
Marilyn Monroe

"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."
Marilyn Monroe

"What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course."
Maryilyn Monroe

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
Ingrid Bergman

"A charming woman doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself."
Loretta Young

"Old age is no place for sissies."
Bette Davis

“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
Katharine Hepburn

“Enemies are so stimulating.”
Katharine Hepburn

“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”
Katharine Hepburn

“I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.”
Katharine Hepburn

“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?”
Katharine Hepburn

“I’ve lived by a man’s code designed to fit a man’s world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman’s first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.”
Carole Lombard

"Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them."
Marlene Dietrich

"I am at heart a gentleman."
Marlene Dietrich

"I am not a myth."
Marlene Dietrich

"I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men."
Marlene Dietrich

"I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them."
Betty Grable

"With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world."
Betty Grable

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
Bertrand Russell

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
Judy Garland

“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.”
Anais Nin

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”
Anais Nin

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
Anais Nin

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
Anais Nin


"For Whom, anywhere, can actually believe that we are on this earth to behave...in all
good endeavors... ordinarily rather than extraordinarily?"
Jolene Bungalow Gal


"From the magnitude of a specified force
or quality of
history
there arises... the
QUOTE"
Jolene Bungalow Gal

"Go Dahlinks...And Give Them

All You've Got"

"There Arises...The Quote"

"From the magnitude of a specified force
or quality of
history
there arises... the
QUOTE"
Jolene Bungalow Gal


 The WWII era selection and quality of quotes offered 
below and
for the enlightenenment of our Gentle Readers are,
 at times, random
and at other times simply
personal preference...why?

"Because I can."





Fighting Words...

"In war there is no substitute for victory." 
Gen Douglas MacArthur

"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
General Douglas MacArthur

"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."
General Douglas MacArthur

“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
General Douglas MacArthur

“Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.”
General Douglas MacArthur

“I shall return.”
General Douglas MacArthur

“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.”
General George S. Patton

“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”
George S. Patton

"Pressure makes diamonds.”
George S. Patton

“I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.”
George S. Patton

"Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.”
George S. Patton

Movie Quotes:

"I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me." Humphrey Bogart

"Here's looking at you, kid."
Humphrey Bogart/Casa Blanca

"Things are never so bad they can't be made worse."
 Humphrey Bogart/The African Queen

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
Humphrey Bogart/Casa Blanca

"It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people doesn't add up to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now,...Here's looking at you kid."
Humphrey Bogart/Casa Blanca

"My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you."
Geogre M. Cohan/Yankee Doodle Dandy

" Just try and stay out of my way. Just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"
Wicked Witch of the West

"Toto, now I know...we're not in Kansas anymore"
Judy Garland, Wizard of Oz

QUOTES OF LEADERS:

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.

Winston Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

“I am easily satisfied with the very best.”
Winston Churchill

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.” Winston Churchill

“Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense”
Winston Churchill

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it”
Winston Churchill

"I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.”
Winston Churchill

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Winston Churchill

“Please be good enough to put your conclusions and recommendations on one sheet of paper in the very beginning of your report, so I can even consider reading it”
Winston Churchill

“If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.”
Winston Churchill

“I like a man who grins when he fights.”
Winston Churchill

“We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it”
Winston Churchill

“Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”
Winston Church

“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill

“There is nothing to fear but fear itself.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941

A WOMAN'S VOICE

“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

"This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used."

Eleanor Roosevelt

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

"I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others."
 Amelia Earhart, in her last letter to her husband, 1937.

"We realized what a spot we were in. We had to deliver the goods, or else there wouldn't ever be another chance for women pilots in any part of the service."
Cornelia Fort

"I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls."
Jacqueline Cochran

"I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it."
Marilyn Monroe

"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."
Marilyn Monroe

"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."
Marilyn Monroe

"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it."
Marilyn Monroe

"What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course."
Maryilyn Monroe

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
Ingrid Bergman

"A charming woman doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself."
Loretta Young

"Old age is no place for sissies."
Bette Davis

“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
Katharine Hepburn

“Enemies are so stimulating.”
Katharine Hepburn

“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”
Katharine Hepburn

“I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.”
Katharine Hepburn


“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?”
Katharine Hepburn

“I’ve lived by a man’s code designed to fit a man’s world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman’s first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.”
Carole Lombard

"Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them."
Marlene Dietrich

"I am at heart a gentleman."
Marlene Dietrich

"I am not a myth."
Marlene Dietrich

"I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men."
Marlene Dietrich

"I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them."
Betty Grable

"With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world."
Betty Grable


"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
Bertrand Russell

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
Judy Garland

“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.”
Anais Nin

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”
Anais Nin

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
Anais Nin

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
Anais Nin


Arts And Actors

“Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing” Clark Gable

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues." 
Duke Ellington

"All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable."

Walt Disney
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
Walt Disney

"Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world."
Walt Disney

"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."

Walt Disney

"A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five."
 Groucho Marx

"Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves".
Frank Lloyd Wright

"About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
Ernest Hemingway

 "Courage is grace under pressure."
Ernest Hemingway

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
 Ernest Hemingway

"Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out."
Norman Rockwell

"Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable."
Norman Rockwell

"I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to."
Norman Rockwell

"Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life."
Norman Rockwell

"I'm tired, but proud. "
Norman Rockwell

"The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it."
Norman Rockwell


"I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree."
Georgia O'Keeffe


Sport Greats

"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."
Yogi Berra

"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."
Yogi Berra

"It ain't the heat, it's the humility."
Yogi Berra

"I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference."

Lou Gehrig

"The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all."
Lou Gehrig

"There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all."
Lou Gehrig


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