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A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. -- Betty Friedan
I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life. -- Major Taylor
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success. -- Erwin Rommel
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. -- Paul Tournier
Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others. -- Stevie Wonder
Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis. -- Napoleon Hill
Handicaps are mindsets. Whatever it is that stands in the way of achieving something, that's when it's a handicap. I prefer to see them as obstacles or challenges. This is how I've been my whole life. I don't know any different. I just live my life through my feet. -- Jessica Cox
My handicap? Woods and irons. -- Chris Codiroli
In politics stupidity is not a handicap. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. -- Robert A. Heinlein
There's no such thing as a handicap - it's all in your head -- Bethany Hamilton
This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood. -- Michael Medved
Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black. -- Shirley Chisholm
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. -- Shirley Chisholm
But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting. -- Philip Gibbs
I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God. -- Helen Keller
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. -- Gustave Flaubert
There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future. -- Anil Kapoor
I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting. -- Shia LaBeouf
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. -- Ray Kroc
A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him. -- Charles Hamilton Houston
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. -- Salvador Dali
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome. -- Golda Meir
People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone. -- Henri Nouwen
You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time. -- Gordie Howe
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music. -- Jim Davis
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. -- Carter G. Woodson
And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense. -- Shia LaBeouf
Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. -- Og Mandino
I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled. -- Paul Michael Glaser
Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap. -- Gil Gerard
Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitations of rockets would no longer apply. The whole timetable of our conquest of the planets in our solar system would be tremendously speeded up, from hot Mercury all the way out to frigid Pluto. -- Donald A. Wollheim
I believe that perfection handicaps cinema. -- Jean Renoir
Our handicaps exist only in our minds. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God. -- Helen Keller
Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy. -- Coco Chanel
Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people. -- Russell M. Nelson
We can be bitter about our handicaps or we can be happy about our blessings. -- William Arthur Ward
If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
People with disabilities are sometimes very humble and approachable, if you want a seasoned reputation, then behave like one of the handicaps. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Tolerance is our safest refuge and our fortress against the handicaps that arise from schism, factions, and the difficulties inherent in reaching mutual agreement -- Fethullah Gulen
The most important thing I've come to believe in is that people with mental handicaps have a unique mission to bring God's blessing to the World. -- Henri Nouwen
The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life. -- Erich Fromm
You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else. -- Audrey Hepburn

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