Women's Health Conference Intro

Welcome to the 2006 OHSUWomen’s Health Conference

Be happy.

It’s one way of being wise.

— Colette

Taking joy in life is a woman’s best cosmetic.— Rosalind Russell

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

— Helen Keller

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

— Nancy Friday

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy that is translated through you; and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.

— Martha Graham

The road to success is always under construction. — Lily Tomlin

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses

— Joyce Brothers

Visit us at the new Peter O. Kohler Pavilion

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

— Cynthia Ozick

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

— Edith Wharton

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.

Dream deep, for every dream precedes a goal.

— Pamela Vaull Starr

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

— Beryl Markham

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse — what I am is beyond my control — for the philosophy of responsibility.

— Barbara Jordan

Find out who you are...and do it on purpose!— Dolly Parton

We are the hero of our own story.

— Mary McCarthy

Trust yourself.

Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with

all your life.

Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks

of possibility into flames of achievement.

— Golda Meir

If you obey the rules, you miss all the fun.

— Katharine Hepburn

What stories and memories all feet hold of life’s mysterious journey.

— Anonymous

It’s sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.— Brigitte Bardot

Some of us come on earth seeing —Some of us come on earth seeing color.

— Louise Nevelson

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.— Lauren Bacall