Realization Quotes

It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question ‘who am I’ except the voice inside herself.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you’re either very lucky person or you’re not.

You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women’s magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the “feminine mystique.”

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn’t end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting.

Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.