Advice Quote by Ava DuVernay

“We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence.”

— Bryant McGill

“If you are a woman who has chosen not to have children, society will always ask you to justify it.”

— Gloria Steinem

La socie te ne doit rien exiger de celui qui n'attend rien d'elle. Society should not ask anything of the person who expects nothing…

— Sydney Samuelson

It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

— Nancy Friday

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

— Bella Abzug

. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of…

— Gerda Lerner

I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt…

— Anita Hill

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

— David Hockney

“Life is about taking what you want and giving even more. Not because you think you should, because you want to. Love isn't easy…

— Rachel Robinson

Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.

— Carol Ann Duffy

“You’re right. I don’t know your real name. But I don’t know mine either and it’s never stopped me from knowing who I am…

— C.J. Roberts

“God is simply taking you where you do not want to go to produce in you what you could not achieve on your own.”

— Timothy S. Lane

I ask for tips, for advice. What I have also learnt is that I need to do things that are good for me. In…

— Matthijs de Ligt

The sensible person is always serious about sensible advice.

— Mak_786