簡單話語中的智慧
如果你喜歡閱讀哲學語錄，這裡有一些極具啟發性的女性哲學語錄。來自著名女性領袖如 Mother Teresa、Emily Dickinson、Golda Meir、Aung San Suu Kyi 等人的話語，展現了她們的覺察深度與智慧廣度，必定會讓你印象深刻。
Mother Teresa，社會工作者
We are all pencils in the hand of God writing love letters to the world.
我們都是上帝手中的鉛筆，正在為這個世界寫下情書。
Virginia Woolf，英國女性主義者
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
讓我們老去、讓我們死亡的，不是災難、謀殺、死亡、疾病，而是人們看我們的眼神、笑聲，還有他們奔跑上公車階梯的模樣。
Nancy Willard，美國詩人
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
有時候，問題比答案更重要。
Emily Dickinson，詩人
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
靈魂應該永遠半掩著門，隨時準備迎接狂喜的經驗。
Betty Friedan，社會運動者，《女性的奧秘》
The problem that has no name—which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities—is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
這個無名的問題——也就是美國女性無法成長至其完整人性潛能的事實——對我們國家的身心健康造成的損害，比任何已知疾病還要巨大。
Jane Austen，小説家
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
她年輕時被迫變得謹慎，年長時才學會浪漫——這是不自然開端的自然發展。
Martha Graham，編舞家
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.
你是獨一無二的，如果這沒有被實現，那就代表有某些東西被遺失了。
Jennifer Aniston，美國演員
The greater your capacity to love, the greater is your capacity to feel the pain.
你愛的能力有多大，你感受痛苦的能力也會有多大。
Eleanor Roosevelt，社會運動者
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
我們的良知什麼時候才能變得如此敏銳，讓我們行動來防止人類的苦難，而不是報復它？
Golda Meir，以色列首位女性總理
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
那些不知道如何全心流淚的人，也不會真正懂得如何歡笑。
Abigail Adams，美國第二任第一夫人
[in a letter to John Adams] Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
[在寫給 John Adams 的信中] 讓我遠離你那些冷淡的講道者、政客、朋友、情人和丈夫。
Bette Davis，美國演員
Old age is no place for sissies.
老年不是膽小鬼該待的地方。
Mother Teresa，社會工作者
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
如果你去評斷別人，你就沒有時間去愛他們。
Sara Teasdale，詩人
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
我善用所有來到的，也淡然看待所有離去的。
Candace Pert，神經科學家
Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment.
愛常常引領療癒，而恐懼與孤立則孕育疾病。我們最大的恐懼，是被遺棄。
Muriel Spark，小説家，《布羅迪小姐的青春》
One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
人生的黃金時期是難以捉摸的。你們這些小女孩，等你們長大後，一定要警覺，在人生的任何時刻辨認出屬於自己的黃金時期。
Aung San Suu Kyi，諾貝爾和平獎得主
The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
全球女性的教育與賦權，必定能為全人類帶來更有愛、更寬容、更公正與更和平的生活。
Maya Angelou，作家
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
鳥兒不是因為有答案而歌唱，而是因為牠有首歌。
Eleanor Roosevelt，社會運動者
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
未來屬於那些相信夢之美好的人。
Jane Goodall，英國靈長類動物學家
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.
持久的改變是一連串妥協的結果。妥協是可以的，只要你的價值觀不改變。
Rosa Luxemburg，革命家
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
自由永遠也只能是那種對異議者的自由。
Mother Teresa，社會工作者
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
有時我們以為貧窮只是飢餓、裸露和無家可歸。但被冷落、無人愛與無人關心的貧窮才是最可怕的。我們必須從自己的家庭著手，去解決這種貧窮。
Peace Pilgrim，和平主義者
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
純粹的愛，是一種願意無條件付出的心，不期待任何回報。
Gloria Swanson，美國演員
[quoted in the New York Times] I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
[《紐約時報》引述] 我對回憶錄花的心思，遠比我對婚姻多。你無法與一本書離婚。
