Footprints That Last, Walking on Tiptoe, Leymah Gbowee

“You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.” - Leymah Gbowee

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 20.

Women, Rights, Just Take Them, Sojourner Truth

“If women want any rights more than they have, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.” - Abolitionist orator Sojourner Truth. Seize the day, ladies – or shut the hell up!

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 72.

Conditions of Tyranny, Easier to Act Than to Think, Hannah Arendt

“Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.” - Hannah Arendt, left-wing philosopher who promoted the radical notion that morality might have a place in politics.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 63.

Blind with Patriotism, Face Reality, Wrong is Wrong, Malcolm X

"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it." - Malcolm X

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/malcolm_x_390503.

Thing Under My Bed, Isn't Real, Grab My Ankle, Stephen King

“The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.” ― Stephen King, Night Shift

Found on Goodreads. Read more at https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=✓&q=Stephen+King&commit=Search

The Moment Anyone Tries, How Great You Are, Threat, Cicely Tyson

“The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.” - Cicely Tyson

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 70.

Repent of Love, Love, Muriel Spark

“It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.” - Muriel Spark. The author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie converted to Catholicism, but refused to censor her heart.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 121.

You Can, You Should, You Will, Stephen King

“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Found on Goodreads. Read more at https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=✓&q=Stephen+King&commit=Search

Truth, Justice, Malcolm X

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against." - Malcolm X

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/malcolm_x_385966.

Cub, Roaring Like a Lion, Carry Nation

“You have put me in here a cub, but I will come out roaring like a lion, and I will make all hell howl!” - Temperamental temperance crusader Carry Nation, utterly unsubdued by her stint in the slammer.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 59.

Social Change, Dare and Act, Think Unconventionally, Indira Gandhi

“Social change is brought about by those who dare and act, who can think unconventionally, and who can court unpopularity.” - Indira Gandhi

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 17.

Seize the Moment, Titanic, Dessert Cart, Erma Bombeck

“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.” - Erma Bombeck

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 42.

Being a Bitch, Hold On To, Delores Claiborne, Stephen King

“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.” ― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

Found on GoodReads. Read more here.

Strength, Courage, Confidence, Eleanor Roosevelt

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'” - Eleanor Roosevelt

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 63.

Lessons, Stay True to Yourself, Michelle Obama

“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.” - Michelle Obama

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, pages 22 – 23.

Really in Earnest, Anything or Nothing, Susan B. Anthony

“Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.” - Susan B. Anthony, the formidable founding mother of 19th-century American feminism.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 66.

Consent to Creep, Impulse to Soar, Helen Keller

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” - Helen Keller

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 26.

Willingness, Responsibility, One's Own Life, Joan Didion

“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.” - Joan Didion

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 21.

Old Age, Sissies, Bette Davis

“Old age ain't no place for sissies.” - Bette Davis

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 74.

Sufferings of Others, Do Not Actually See Them, Albion Fellows Bacon

“We can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.” - Albion Fellows Bacon, a rather cynical turn-of-the-century social worker.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 61.

Fiction, Truth, Lie, Stephen King

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” ― Stephen King

Found on GoodReads. Read more here.

Every Word, Story of the World, Carolyn See

“Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.” - Carolyn See

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 2.

Scared, Fight, Hope, Gabrielle Union

“I am scared. I will fight. Trump will not crush my spirit. Hope fuels the fire in my belly to seek the change I want to see in this country.” - Gabrielle Union

Ms. Magazine's Special 2016 Election Issue, page 11.

Everything, Tell Your Stories, Behaved Better, Anne Lamott

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.” ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Found on GoodReads. Read more at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7113.Anne_Lamott.

Develop Courage, Being Happy, Surviving Difficult Times, Barbara De Angelis

“We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” - Barbara De Angelis

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 28.

Good Communication, Black Coffee, Anne Morrow Lindberg

“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.” - Anne Morrow Lindberg

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 82.

Real Courage, You Know You're Licked, Begin Anyway, Atticus Finch, Harper Lee

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." - (Atticus Finch) ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Found on Goodreads, at https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3275794-to-kill-a-mockingbird.

Marched, Thousands of Miles, We Must Do This, Si se puede, Dolores Huerta

"We've already marched many thousands of miles in our struggle for human rights and social justice, and tomorrow we march again. We must do this. We can do this. Si se puede!" - Dolores Huerta, Co-Founder, United Farm Workers, in the Special Elections 2016 issue of Ms. Magazine.

Sustained Outrage, Unthinking Respect, Authority, Molly Ivins

“What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.” - Molly Ivins

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 50.

Theory, Difference, Practice, Manfred Eigen

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." - Manfred Eigen

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/manfredeig211444.html.

Lighthouses, Shining, Anne Lamott

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” ― Anne Lamott

Found on GoodReads. Read more at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7113.Anne_Lamott.

Gossip, News, Red Satin Dress, Lis Smith

“Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.” - Syndicated columnist Lis Smith, dedicated to keeping a news-hungry nation apprised of the triumphs, tragedies, and predictable little peccadillos os those who live in (or for) the limelight.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 16.

Hooligan, Emmeline Pankhurst

“I am what you call a hooligan!” - Emmeline Pankhurst, England's most insufferable suffragette.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 60.

Archaeologist, Best Husband, Agatha Christie

"An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: The older she gets, the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie.

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor

Sex Symbol, Convict, Raquel Welch

“Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.” - Raquel Welch, notorious both for her annoyingly firm form and her role as one-half of a transsexual character in the 1970 film Myra Breckenridge.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 180.

Man in Love, Incomplete, Finished, Zsa Zsa Gabor

“A man in love is incomplete until he's married – then he's finished.” - Zsa Zsa Gabor

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 72.

Conductor, Underground Railroad, Never Lost a Passenger, Harriet Tubman

“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say – I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.” - Harriet Tubman

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 4.

Woman Meant for a Man, Compete, Bette Davis

“I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.” - Bette Davis. Off-screen, the star of All About Eve had a hard time scaring up a satisfactory Adam

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 176.

Stress and Adventure, Prove You Are Alive, Lady Bird Johnson

“A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.” - Lady Bird Johnson

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 6.

Be Free or Die, Harriet Tubman

“You'll be free or die.” - Harriet Tubman. Timorous Underground Railway passengers toughened up quick when Tubman brandished her revolver.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 59.

Human Kindness, Free People, Tough, Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/franklin_d_roosevelt_138856.

What I've Lost, What I Have Left, Betty Ford

“I don't look at what I've lost. I look instead at what I have left.” - Betty Ford

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 7.

Success, Insufferable, Fran Lebowitz

“Success didn't spoil me; I've always be insufferable.” - Satirist Fran Lebowitz, an inspiration to every sarcastic smart-ass who ever got herself booted out of high school.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 3.

Love, Playing Checkers, Man, Move, Jackie "Moms" Mabley

“Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move.” - Jackie “Moms” Mabley. A Mom, but not a Mabley, at the outset of her career, the Apollo theater legend lifted her last name from Beau #1, who owed her for certain favors.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 76.

Cleaning Your House, Kids, Shoveling the Walk, Phyllis Diller

“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is lie shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.” - Phyllis Diller

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 170.

Out Raising Hell, Fighting Age, Mother Jones

“You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.” - Mother Jones

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 1.

Not the Time, Sidelines, We Must Fight On, Eleanor Smeal, Kathy Spillar

"This is not the time for feminists to sit on the sidelines. We must fight on. We have come too far and worked too hard to go back now.

"This is a call to action. If you have the ability, desire and drive to volunteer for your favorite feminist cause or organization, the time to do so is now. Clinics need escorts; nonprofits need volunteer researchers, event organizers, administrators, lawyers, artists, designers, computer techies and fundraisers. Everyone and every skill count. We all need your passion, encouragement, skills, commitment, financial support—big or small." Eleanor Smeal, Kathy Spillar, Ms. Magazine, from the special election issue's and blog's "This is a Call to Action".

Reach the End of Your Rope, Hang On, Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/franklin_d_roosevelt_101840.

Achievement and Success, Helen Hayes

“My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.” - Helen Hayes

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 23.

Woman Needs a Man, Fish Needs a Net, Cynthia Heimel

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net.” - Cynthia Heimel

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 77.

Silence, Protect You, Audre Lorde

"Your silence will not protect you." - Audre Lorde

Found at Brainy Quote. Read it at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/audrelorde357292.html.

Prevent Injustice, Protest, Despair, Elie Wiesel

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." - Elie Wiesel

"We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else." - Elie Wiesel

Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/elie_wiesel.html

Comedy, Tragedy, Humor, Truth, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radner

“Comedy is tragedy, plus time.” - Carol Burnett

“Humor is just truth, only faster.” - Gilda Radner

Both of these quotes were found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 54.

Combine Marriage and Career, Gloria Steinem

“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.” - Gloria Steinem

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 129.

Book, Banned, Indefensible, Rebecca West

"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide." - Rebecca West

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/rebecca_west_137977 .

Take Sides, Neutrality, Silence, Elie Wiesel

“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” - Elie Wiesel

Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/elie_wiesel.html.

Laughter, Carbonated Holiness, Anne Lamott

“Laughter is carbonated holiness.” ― Anne Lamott

Found on GoodReads. Read more at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7113.Anne_Lamott.

Something to Eat, Love, Sermon, Billie Holiday

“You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.” - Billie Holiday

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 123.

Courage, Afraid, Eddie Rickenbacker

"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared." - Eddie Rickenbacker

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/eddiericke104722.html.

Not a Romantic Matter, All Men are Brothers, James Baldwin

“It is not a romantic matter. It is the unutterable truth: all men are brothers. That's the bottom line.” - James Baldwin

Found in The Sun, June 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”.

Discriminated Against, Astonishes Me, Zora Neale Hurston

"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me." - Zora Neale Hurston

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 19.

Monsters, Ghosts, They Win, Stephen King

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” ― Stephen King

Found on GoodReads. Can be viewed here.

Whoever is Happy, Anne Frank

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” - Anne Frank

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 98.

Jokes, Watch the Government, Report the Facts, Will Rogers

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." - Will Rogers

Found at Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/willrogers100045.html.

Books, Important, World After World, Live and Die, Anne Lamott

“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.” ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Found on GoodReads. Read more at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7113.Anne_Lamott.

Fiction, Reality, Tom Clancy

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/tom_clancy.html.

Risk Assessment, Drink That Water, Breathe That Air, Winona LaDuke

“You can change the terms, you can change the allowable limits, you can do the risk assessment – all these things – but in the end, the fact is that you and I drink that water. You and I breathe that air. You and I live here.” - Winona LaDuke

Found in The Sun, July 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”

Alzheimer's, AIDS, Can't Remember Why, Anita Milner

“I'm starting to worry more about getting Alzheimer's than AIDS...but for the life of me, I can't remember why.” - Anita Milner

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 55.

Biggest Sin, Sitting, Florynce Kennedy

“The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.” - Fleet-tongued Florynce Kennedy. Fortunately, the Ur-activist of the Sixties and Seventies seldom stayed down in the dumps for long.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 70.

I am America, Muhammad Ali

“I am America. I am the part you won't recognize, but get used to me. Black, confident, cocky. My name, not yours. My religion, not yours. My goals, my own. Ge used to me.” - Muhammad Ali

Found in The Sun, June 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”

Vegetarian Family, Restaurant, Soy Vey, Margo Black

“I'm a Jewish girl who was raised in a vegetarian family. My dream is to open a restaurant called 'Soy Vey.'” - Margo Black

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 42.

Taxes, Honours, Commands, Statecraft, Hortensia

“Why should we pay taxes when we have no part in the honours, the commands, the statecraft, for which you contend against each other with such harmful results?” - Irate orator Hortensia, circa 50 BC. Headstrong H got her toga in a tangle when Roman leaders extracted a tax from females only...to fund a civil war.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 65.

Good Books, Secrets, Stephen King

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.” ― Stephen King

Found on Goodreads. Read that and more here.

History, Fight Nature to Survive, Protect It, Jacques Cousteau

“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.” - Jacques Cousteau

Found in The Sun, July 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”

Older I Get, Greater Power, Snowball, Gain, Susan B. Anthony

“The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.” - Susan B. Anthony, the formidable founding mother of 19th-century American feminism.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 66.

Dangerous Place, Evil, Don't Do Anything, Albert Einstein

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein.

Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alberteins143096.html

Found Wisdom, Being a Fool, Erica Jong

“No one has ever found wisdom without also being a fool.” - Erotic novelist Erica Jong, a fearless frequent flyer.

Of course, not every fool finds wisdom...

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 78.

Photograph, Secret, Never Been, Diane Arbus

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” - Photographer Diane Arbus

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.” - Photographer Diane Arbus

“My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.” - Photographer Diane Arbus, whose penchant for peculiar-looking posers led her down some rather unusual paths.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 162.

Lying, Leaving Out, Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

“And this wasn't lying, not really. It was leaving out.” - Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

Found in The Sun, May 2017, pg.48, “Sunbeams”

Guns, Constitutional Amendment, Women, Eleanor Smeal

“Just think – guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't.” - Hotshot Eleanor Smeal, president of NOW from 1977 to 1987.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 71.

Don't Agonize, Organize, Florynce Kennedy

“Don't agonize. Organize.” - Fleet-tongued Florynce Kennedy. Fortunately, the Ur-activist of the Sixties and Seventies seldom stayed down in the dumps for long.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 70.

Affirming Human Rights, Women and Girls, Prevent Violence, Bella Abzug

"We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence." - Bella Abzug

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/bellaabzug688098.html

Failure, Impossible, Susan B. Anthony

“Failure is impossible.” - Susan B. Anthony, the formidable founding mother of 19th-century American feminism.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 66.

Test of Our Progress, Abundance, Provide Enough, Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Found on . Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/franklin_d_roosevelt_163168.

Nothing Changes, Gender Equation, Women's Economic Freedom, Gloria Steinem

"Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom." - Gloria Steinem

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/gloria_steinem_690741.

South, Laws, Disenfranchised, Discriminated, Michelle Alexander

“By the turn of the twentieth century, every state in the South had laws on the books that disenfranchised blacks and discriminated against them in virtually every sphere of life, lending action to a racial ostracism that extended to schools, churches, housing, jobs, restrooms, hotels, restaurants, hospitals, orphanages, prisons, funeral homes, morgues, and cemeteries. Politicians competed with each other by proposing and passing ever more stringent, oppressive, and downright ridiculous legislation (such as laws specifically prohibiting blacks and whites from playing chess together).” - Michelle Alexander

Found in The Sun, June 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”.

With any luck - and a whole lot of people deciding to vote, instead of sitting back to watch democracy - this will not happen again. Some "retro" things should not return.

Blame Anyone, Never Blame Yourself, If You Wanted to Change, Katharine Hepburn

“...We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – you can blame anyone, but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's ALWAYS your fault, because if you wanted to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?” - Katharine Hepburn

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 26.

Stands for Nothing, Fall for Anything, Malcolm X

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything." - Malcolm X

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/malcolm_x_379121.

Women, Produced Anything of Value, Chief Product of the Women, Men, Value, Anna Shaw

“A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, 'Women have never produced anything of any value to the world.' I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.” - Anna Shaw, the mouthiest minister this side of the Mississippi (or, for that matter, the other one).

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 60.

What We Need, Not Division, Not Hatred, Not Violence, Lawlessness, But Love, Wisdom, Robert F. Kennedy

“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.” - Robert F. Kennedy

Found in The Sun, June 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”.

Concentration of Wealth, Concentration of Political Power, Noam Chomsky

"Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle." - Noam Chomsky

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/noam_chomsky_635835.

Heard the Word 'Wait', Familiarity, Never, Martin Luther King Jr.

“For years now I have heard the word 'Wait!' It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This 'Wait' has almost always meant 'Never.'”- Martin Luther King Jr.

From The Sun, June 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”

Leaps of Imagination, Dreaming, Planning, Gloria Steinem

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." — Gloria Steinem, American journalist and political activist

Found at Brainy Quote; can be viewed at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/gloria_steinem_121278.

In Germany, Communists, Jews, Catholics, Martin Niemoller

"In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I was not a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me." - Martin Niemoller, 1945 (WW1 war hero & U Boat Captain, WW2 pastor who spent 7 years in Nazi prisons).

This is one variant of the quote by Martin Niemoller. Variations include trade unionists, social democrats, and others. We are now observing orders in the U.S. aimed at immigrants entering the U.S.

You can view this and some of the variants at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Niemöller, or Google Martin Niemoller for more links.

Two Problems, Species' Survival, Nuclear War, Environmental Catastrophe, Noam Chomsky

"There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly." - Noam Chomsky

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/noam_chomsky_447307.

Blind with Patriotism, Can't Face Reality, Wrong is Wrong, Malcolm X

"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it." - Malcolm X

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/malcolm_x_390503.

Change the Terms, Change the Allowable Limits, Drink That Water, Breathe That Air, Winona LaDuke

“You can change the terms, you can change the allowable limits, you can do the risk assessment – all these things – but in the end, the fact is that you and I drink that water. You and I breathe that air. You and I live here.” - Winona LaDuke

From The Sun, July 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”

Highly Improbable, Realize Their Full Human Potential, Elizabeth Janeway

“...It seems to me highly improbable that women are going to realize their full human potential without alienating men – some men, anyway.” - Elizabeth Janeway

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 110.

Good Books, Secrets, Stephen King

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.” ― Stephen King

Found on GoodReads. To read it, click here.

Universities Stifle Writers, Don't Stifle Enough, Flannery O'Connor

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.” - Flannery O'Connor

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 66.

Gender-Equal Society, Gloria Steinem

"A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves." - Gloria Steinem

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/gloriastei690730.html.

Truth, Justice, Malcolm X

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against." - Malcolm X

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/malcolm_x_385966.

Freedom of Expression, People We Despise, Noam Chomsky

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." - Noam Chomsky

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/noam_chomsky_108350.

Commentary, Being Alone, Suspect, Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it – like a secret vice!” - Aviator/writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Happily wed to charming Charles, she envied nothing so much as the “austere peace” of monks.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 135.

You Grow Up, Real Laugh, Ethel Barrymore

“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.” - Ethel Barrymore

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 154.

Doing What You Do, Not Being Able to do Something, Grace Paley

“You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.” - Grace Paley, failed poet, acclaimed short story writer.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 163.

Most Anti-Feminist Institutions, Dresses, Flo Kennedy

“It is interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing dresses.” - Flo Kennedy

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 36.

People of Accomplishment, Let Things Happen, Happened to Things, Elinor Smith

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” - Elinor Smith

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 23.

God is Not a Woman, Imperfections, Jill M. Consideine

“I know God is not a woman – no woman would have created men with so many imperfections.” - Jill M. Consideine, who has faith that He is not a She.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 120.

Last Tree, Last River, Last Fish, Cree Indian Proverb

"Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." - Cree Indian Proverb/Prophecy

This can be found at Quoteland.com on this page.

Seize the Moment, Titanic, Dessert Cart, Erma Bombeck

“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.” - Erma Bombeck

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 42.

Struggle, Never-Ending Process, Freedom, Never Really Won, Coretta Scott King

“Struggle is a never-ending process and freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation.” - Coretta Scott King

From The Sun, June 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”

Because Women's Work, Joyce Stevens, Women's Liberation Broadsheet

"Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we don't we're frigid and if we love women it's because we can't get a "real" man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive and "unfeminine" and if we don't we're typical weak females and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man and if we don't we're unnatural and because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy we're made to feel guilty about abortion and...for lots of other reasons we are part of the women's liberation movement." - Author unknown, quoted in The Torch, 14 September 1987

I first read these words on a poster at Brigit Books in St. Petersburg, Florida. Brigit Books has long since closed (darn!). But I was able to find out that Joyce Stevens wrote the above quote as a Union Song for Women's Liberation Broadsheet, International Woman's Day, 1975.

Numerous links had this listed as "Author unknown, quoted in The Torch." While I was able to find links to several magazines and newsletters listed as The Torch, none of them were ones that had listed this quote. However, we now know who wrote these words.

Keep a Diary, Keep You, Mae West

“Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you.” - Mae West

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 33.

Lies Behind You, Lies in Front of You, Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ralphwaldo386697.html.

One Damn Thing After Another, Over and Over, Edna St. Vincent Millay

“It is not true that life is one damn thing after another – it's one damn thing over and over.” - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 65.

Terrorize a Whole Nation, Accomplices, Edward R. Murrow

"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices." - Edward R. Murrow

Can be found at Goodreads or by clicking here.

I Don't Mind a Good Fight, What You Fight For, John McCain

“I don’t mind a good fight. For reasons known only to God, I’ve had quite a few tough ones in my life. But I learned an important lesson along the way: In the end, it matters less that you can fight. What you fight for is the real test.” - John McCain, Sept 4, 2008, speech to the Republican National Convention accepting the party’s presidential nomination.

Found in the Los Angeles Times, at http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-mccain-memorable-quotes-20180826-story.html.

Photograph, Secret, Diane Arbus

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” - Photographer Diane Arbus

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.” - Photographer Diane Arbus

“My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.” - Photographer Diane Arbus, whose penchant for peculiar-looking posers led her down some rather unusual paths.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 162.

Progress, Change, George Bernard Shaw

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/georgebern386923.html.

Rainbow, Rain, Dolly Parton

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” - Dolly Parton

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 124.

Low Road, Highest Office, Presidency, Best Way, John McCain

“I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land. I want the presidency in the best way, not the worst way.” - John McCain, Feb. 19, 2000, after losing the South Carolina Republican primary

Found in the Los Angeles Times, at http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-mccain-memorable-quotes-20180826-story.html.

Fool, Money, Elected, Will Rogers

"A fool and his money are soon elected." - Will Rogers

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/willrogers128083.html.

Motivation, Dreams, Work Clothes, Benjamin Franklin

“Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.” — Benjamin Franklin

Found at http://www.values.com/inspirational-quotes/6240-motivation-is-when-your-dreams-put-on-work.

War is Wretched, Fool, Fraud, Cruel Reality, John McCain

“War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.” - John McCain

Found in the Los Angeles Times, at http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-mccain-memorable-quotes-20180826-story.html.

Very Powerful, Very Stupid, Alter Their Views, Fit the Facts, Alter the Facts, Dr. Who

"You know the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit the views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that need altering." - Doctor Who - Doctor Who: The Face of Evil

Found on IMDB at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0811885/quotes.

Note: I normally don't use movie or TV quotes here, but this somehow just seemed appropriate during the current political climate.

Understand a Person, Point of View, Harper Lee, Atticus Finch

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” (Atticus Finch) ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Found on Goodreads, at https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3275794-to-kill-a-mockingbird.

Silence, Not Protect You, Audre Lorde

"Your silence will not protect you." - Audre Lorde

Found at Brainy Quote. Read it at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/audrelorde357292.html.

God Made Man, Made Woman, Adela Rogers St. Johns

“God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.” - Adela Rogers St. Johns

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 128.

When One's Mind is Made Up, Rosa Parks

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear." — Rosa Parks, African-American civil rights activist

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/rosa_parks_390344

Defend the Rights, Access to Care, Cecile Richards

“We will defend the rights we've won. We'll defend access to care millions depend on. We've been doing it 100 years. We're not stopping now.” - Cecile Richards, President, Planned Parenthood

From Ms. Magazine special election issue, page 10.

Real Courage, You Know You're Licked, You Begin Anyway, Harper Lee, Atticus Finch

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." - (Atticus Finch) ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Found on Goodreads, at https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3275794-to-kill-a-mockingbird.

Romantic Matter, Brothers, James Baldwin

“It is not a romantic matter. It is the unutterable truth: all men are brothers. That's the bottom line.” - James Baldwin

Found in The Sun, June 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”.

Make Up Horrors, Cope, Real Ones, Stephen King

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” ― Stephen King

Found on Goodreads. You can view it here.

Measure Democracy, Freedom, Dissidents, Assimilated Conformists, Abbie Hoffman

"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." - Abbie Hoffman

Found at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/abbie_hoffman.html.

Place in the Sun, Blisters, Abigail Van Buren

“If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.” - Abigail Van Buren

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 126.

Measure, Moments of Comfort, Times of Challenge, Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

From http://www.inc.com/marla-tabaka/31-martin-luther-king-jr-quotes-to-inspire-greatness-in-you.html

Patriot, Defend His Country, Government, Edward Abbey

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." - Edward Abbey

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/edward_abbey_169278.

Slavery, Woman, History, Susan B. Anthony

"The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history." - Susan B. Anthony, introduction, History of Woman Suffrage

Found on Notable Quotes at http://www.notable-quotes.com/a/anthony_susan_b.html.

Choose to do Great Things, No Difference, Power, Oprah Winfrey

“Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.” - Oprah Winfey

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 162.

No One is Born Hating, Learn to Hate, Taught to Love, Nelson Mandela

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” - Nelson Mandela

Found in The Sun, June 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”.

Keep Silent, Confusions, Cornelia Otis Skinner

“One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.” - Cornelia Otis Skinner

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 124.

Woman, Tea Bag, Hot Water, Eleanor Roosevelt

"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." - Eleanor Roosevelt

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/eleanor_roosevelt_127143.

Writer, Read, Write, Stephen King

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” ― Stephen King

Found on Goodreads. To read more, click here.

Everything is in Our Heads, Not Lose Them, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

“Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.” - Couturier Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, a very fashionable French revolutionary.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 30.

Start Painting, Raised Chickens, Grandma Moses

“If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.” - Grandma Moses, a very pragmatic primitivist.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 171.

America, Name, Religion, Goals, Muhammad Ali

“I am America. I am the part you won't recognize, but get used to me. Black, confident, cocky. My name, not yours. My religion, not yours. My goals, my own. Ge used to me.” - Muhammad Ali

Found in The Sun, June 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”

Talent, Table Salt, Talented Individual, Successful, Hard Work, Stephen King

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work." - Stephen King

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/stephen_king_163656.

Only Thing, Fear, Fear Itself, Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/franklin_d_roosevelt_109480.

Juries, Jury Duty, Monica Piper

“Juries scare me. I don't want to put my fate in the hands of twelve people who weren't even smart enough to get out of jury duty.” - Monica Piper

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 58.

Men, Apologize, Weakness, Women, Strengths, Lois Wyse

“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.” - Lois Wyse

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 107.

Reality, Leading Cause of Stress, Jane Wagner

“Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.” - Writer Jane Wagner, the wry collaborative mind behind some of Lily Tomlin's best lines.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 15.

What We Need in the United States, Love, Wisdom, Robert F. Kennedy

“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.” - Robert F. Kennedy

Found in The Sun, June 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”.

Girls, Never Doubt, Achieve Your Own Dreams, Hillary Rodham Clinton

“To all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.” - Hillary Rodham Clinton in her moving concession speech

Found in Ms Magazine: Winter 2016, page 6.

American People, Right to Vote, Not Voting, Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/franklin_d_roosevelt_403816.

Housekeeper, Divorced, Zsa Zsa Gabor

“I'm a wonderful housekeeper. Every time I get divorced, I keep the house.” - Zsa Zsa Gabor

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 52.

Discriminated Against, Astonishes Me, Zora Neal Hurston

"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me." - Zora Neale Hurston

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/zora_neale_hurston_132700.

Melting Pot, Beautiful Mosaic, Jimmy Carter

"We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams." - Jimmy Carter

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/jimmy_carter_158449.

Success, Mediocre World, Lily Tomlin

“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.” - Lily Tomlin

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 90.

Republican Answer, Democratic Answer, Right Answer, Responsibility for the Future, John F. Kennedy

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future." - John F. Kennedy

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/john_f_kennedy_121400.

Ships at a Distance, Every Man's Wish, Zora Neale Hurston

"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board." - Zora Neale Hurston

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/zora_neale_hurston_399019 .

Censorship, Thought Control, Pat Frank

“Censorship and thought control can exist only in secrecy and darkness.” ― Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon

Found on Goodreads. Read more here.

Sorrow's Kitchen, Peaky Mountain Wrapped in Rainbows, Zora Neale Hurston

"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands." - Zora Neale Hurston

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/zora_neale_hurston_399481.

Master, Teacher, Expects, Your Own Expectations, Patricia Neal

“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.” - Patricia Neal

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 35.

Rage, Writers, Nikki Giovanni

"Rage is to writers what water is to fish. A laid-back writer is like an orgasmic prostitute - an anomaly." - Nikki Giovanni, impassioned poet. (Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, compiled by Autumn Stephens.)

Racial Discrimination, Jimmy Carter

"I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over." - Jimmy Carter

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/jimmy_carter_398677.

Curse the Darkness, Light the Candle, John F. Kennedy

"We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future." - John F. Kennedy

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/john_f_kennedy_126913 .

Love, Hiding Place, Zora Neale Hurston

"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." - Zora Neale Hurston

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/zora_neale_hurston_106544.

Consent to Creep, Impulse to Soar, Helen Keller

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” - Helen Keller

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 26.

Ask Your Child, He's Buying, Fran Lebowitz

“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.” - Fran Lebowitz

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 80.

Feminization of Power, Masculinity of Wealth, Gloria Steinem

"We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth." - Gloria Steinem

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/gloria_steinem_145657.

America, Human Rights, Jimmy Carter

"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America." - Jimmy Carter

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/jimmy_carter_146704.

Same Goal, Rule the World, Madonna

“I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world.” - The mono-nomic Madonna, determined from Day One to make her mark.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 8.

Trouble About Man, Truths, Rebecca West

"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple." - Rebecca West

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/rebecca_west_108172.

Father, Mother, See the World, Sandra Bernhard

“My father was a proctologist, my mother an abstract artist. That's how I see the world.” - Sandra Bernhard, a magnificently maladjusted entertainer.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 160.

Sense of Power, Intoxicating Stimulant, Ellen Swallow Richards

“A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.” - Ellen Swallow Richards. The first American woman to obtain a science degree, Richards (MIT, class of 1873) mixed up her own potent concoctions in chemistry lab.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 14.

Immortality, Rainy Sunday Afternoon, Susan Ertz

“Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” - Susan Ertz, novelist.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 118.

Service, Rent, Earth, Shirley Chisolm

“Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.” - Shirley Chisholm

Found at Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/shirleychi398068.html.

Life, Predictable, Cease to be Life, Without Flavor, Eleanor Roosevelt

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor." - Eleanor Roosevelt

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/eleanor_roosevelt_384413 .

Sexy, Smart, Dyed My Hair, Loni Anderson

“I resent the idea that you can't be both sexy and smart. When I dyed my hair, the peroxide didn't fry my brain cells.” - Actress Loni Anderson. It's the color that's artificial, not the intelligence.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 31.

Question Authority, Timothy Leary

"Think for yourself and question authority." - Timothy Leary

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/timothylea378747.html.

Goal, Strident, Susan Faludi

“My goal is to be accused of being strident.” - Susan Faludi, scribing of the stinging Backlash.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 17.

Equality, Treated Equally to a Man, Treat Yourself, Marlo Thomas

“One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.” - Marlo Thomas

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 35.

Made Wise, Recollection of Our Past, Responsibility, Future, George Bernard Shaw

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." - George Bernard Shaw

Found on BrainyQuote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/george_bernard_shaw_161863.

Protection, Courage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"The best protection any woman can have...is courage." — Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American abolitionist

Found at Beliefnet. View this online at http://www.beliefnet.com/inspiration/2010/01/inspiring-quotes-from-great-women-in-history.aspx?p=17.

Many Sides, Morally Equal, Sen. Kamala Harris

“'Many sides' suggests that there is no right side or wrong side, that all are morally equal. But I reject that. It's not hard to spot the wrong side here. They're the ones with the torches and the swastikas.” - Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), condemning the violence in Charlottesville, Virgina, and President Donald Trump's “many sides” response.

“They tried to kill my child to shut her up. Well, guess what – you just magnified her.” - Susan Bro, speaking at a memorial service for her daughter, Heather Heyer, who was murdered by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville

Both quotes are from the Fall 2017 issue of Ms. Magazine, page 6.

Life, Short, Audre Lorde

"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now." - Audre Lorde

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/audrelorde383487.html.

Nation of Sheep, Government of Wolves, Defend Freedom, Edward R. Murrow

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." - Edward R. Murrow

"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." - Edward R. Murrow

Both of these can be found at Goodreads, specifically at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/178884.Edward_R_Murrow.

In Germany, Didn't Speak Up, Martin Niemoller

"In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I was not a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me." - Martin Niemoller, 1945 (WW1 war hero & U Boat Captain, WW2 pastor who spent 7 years in Nazi prisons).

This is one variant of the quote by Martin Niemoller. Variations include trade unionists, social democrats, and others. We are now observing orders in the U.S. aimed at immigrants entering the U.S.

You can view this and some of the variants at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Niemöller, or Google Martin Niemoller for more links.

Glass Mirror, Face, Works of Art, Soul, George Bernard Shaw

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul." - George Bernard Shaw

Found on BrainyQuote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/george_bernard_shaw_384892.

Racism, Violence Against Women, Gloria Steinem

"The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem." - Gloria Steinem

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/gloriastei690680.html.

We the People, Whole People, Men, Women, Their Rights, Susan B. Anthony

"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people -- women as well as men." - Susan B. Anthony, speech after her arrest for voting in the 1872 presidential election

"Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less." - Susan B. Anthony, The Revolution, Jan. 8, 1868

First quote ("It was we, the people...") found at http://www.notable-quotes.com/a/anthony_susan_b.html.

Second quote ("Men, their rights...") found at http://www.notable-quotes.com/a/anthony_susan_b_ii.html.

What is Important, Meaningful Life, Helping Others, Not Harming Them, Dalai Lama

"What is important is not so much how long you live as whether you live a meaningful life. This doesn’t mean accumulating money and fame, but being of service to your fellow human beings. It means helping others if you can, but even if you can’t do that, at least not harming them." - Dalai Lama, on Twitter.

Measure of a Society, Weakest, Most Helpless Citizens, Jimmy Carter

"The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens." - Jimmy Carter

Found on A-Z Quotes at http://www.azquotes.com/quote/557101.

This can also be applied to children currently being separated from their immigrant parents.

Progress, Change, Change Their Minds, George Bernard Shaw

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw

Found on BrainyQuote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/george_bernard_shaw_386923.

Pleasure, Nothing to Do, Not Doing It, Mary Little

“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.” - Mary Little

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 170.

Labor Movement, Minimum Wage, Middle-Class, Union Label, Barack Obama

"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label." - Barack Obama

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/barack_obama_412572.

Love, Automobile Accident, Tight Girdle, Judith Viorst

“Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.” - Poet Judith Viorst, looking on the positive side of twentieth-century passion.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 150.

Ache From Smiling, Serious, Miserable, Queen Elizabeth II

“I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.” - Queen Elizabeth II of England, as entitled to the occasional annus horribilus as anyone.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 25.

Monsters, Ghosts, They Win, Stephen King

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” ― Stephen King

Found on GoodReads. Can be viewed here.

My Fellow Americans, Immigrants, Barack Obama

"My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too." - Barack Obama

Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/barackobam677261.html

Length of Life, Depth of Life, Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is not length of life, but depth of life." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ralphwaldo101055.html.

Penalties, Participate in Politics, Governed by Your Inferiors, Plato

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - Plato

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty." - Plato

Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/plato.htmlhttps://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/plato.html.

Mother, Noble Status, Unwed, Welfare, Florynce Kennedy

“Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change why you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?” - Civil rights lawyer Florynce Kennedy, once lionized by the press as “Radicalism's Rudest Mouth” and as a “loud-mouthed middled-aged colored lady” by herself.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 193.

Be Critical, Women Have the Right, Tillie Olsen

“Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.” - Tillie Olsen. After twenty years of transcribing other people's words, the long-suppressed author of Silences finally found her own voice.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 13.

Best for the President, White House, Florence Harding

“I know what's best for the President. I put him in the White House. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.” - Florence Harding. According to Mr. H., the nation's 29th head of state, his auto was the only thing the domineering “Duchess” didn't want to drive.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 11.

Americans, Every Background, Stronger Together, Barack Obama

"I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!" - Barack Obama

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/barackobam754716.html.

Man, Woman's Natural Enemy, Lawyer, Shana Alexander

“I don't believe man is woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.” - Shana Alexander

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 59.

Mind Made Up, Diminishes Fear, Rosa Parks

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear." — Rosa Parks, African-American civil rights activist

Found on Beliefnet.com at http://www.beliefnet.com/inspiration/2010/01/inspiring-quotes-from-great-women-in-history.aspx?p=4.

Food Stamp Recipients, Financial Crisis, Wall Street, Barack Obama

"Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did." - Barack Obama

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/barackobam733938.html

Injustice, Threat to Justice, Martin Luther King

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King Jr.

From http://www.inc.com/marla-tabaka/31-martin-luther-king-jr-quotes-to-inspire-greatness-in-you.html

Change, We are the Ones, Barack Obama

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/barack_obama_409128.

Comfort, Afflicted, Afflict, Comfortable, Finley Peter Dunne

"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable." - Finley Peter Dunne.

Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/finley_peter_dunne.html

Woman, Change a Man's Habits, Complain, Barbra Streisand

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?” - Singer Barbra Streisand

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 148.

Familiarity, Contempt, Florence King

“Familiarity doesn't breed contempt; it is contempt.” - Florence King

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 67.

Spend All Day, Beat the Machine, Bella Abzug

"I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure." - Bella Abzug

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/bellaabzug688092.html.

Women, Learn, Power, Take It, Roseanne Barr

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it." - Roseanne Barr

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/roseanne_barr_105145.

Feminist, Feminism, Door Mat, Rebecca West

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute." - Rebecca West, "Mr Chesterton in Hysterics: A Study in Prejudice," The Clarion, 14 Nov 1913, reprinted in The Young Rebecca, 1982

Found at BrainyQuote; can be viewed at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rebeccawes128207.html.

Never Doubt, Small Group, Change the World, Margaret Mead

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." — Margaret Mead

Found at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/margaretme100502.html.

Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Backwards, High Heels, Ann Richards

“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.” ― Ann Richards

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/30204-after-all-ginger-rogers-did-everything-that-fred-astaire-did.

Glamour, Sex, Civilized, Dorothy Lamour

“Glamour is just sex that got civilized.” - Sarong-clad siren Dorothy Lamour. Fittingly, one of dishy Dottie's wrap-arounds wound up in the hoity-toity Smithsonian.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 38.

Every Social Justice Movement, Gloria Steinem

"Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences." - Gloria Steinem

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/gloriastei690613.html.

Liked the Men I Loved, Fanny Brice

“I never liked the men I loved, and I never loved the men I liked.” - Fanny Brice. The leading lady of Ziegfeld's Follies had a few foibles of her own.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 126.

Something to Eat, Little Love, How to Behave, Billie Holiday

“You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.” - Billie Holiday

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 123.

You're Right, What Others Think, Barbara McClintock

“When you know you're right, you don't care what others think. You know sooner or later it will come out in the wash.” - Barbara McClintock. At the age of eighty-one, the boastful botanist finally reaped her well-deserved reward – in the form of a Nobel Prize.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 10.

Good Judgment, Bad Judgment, Will Rogers

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/willrogers411692.html.

No Greater Gift, Impact on the World, Gloria Steinem

"There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better." - Gloria Steinem

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/gloria_steinem_690718.

Right Man, Lucky, Deborah Kerr

“Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.” - Deborah Kerr

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 102.

Formula for Water, Ice Cube, Lily Tomlin

“The formula for water is H2O. Is the formula for an ice cube H2O squared?” - Lily Tomlin

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 105.

Comfort, Afflict, Finley Peter Dunne

"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable." - Finley Peter Dunne.

Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/finley_peter_dunne.html

Perfectionism, Voice of the Oppressor, Anne Lamott

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.” ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Found on GoodReads at Anne Lamott's quote page.

Fight, Ladylike, Mary Jarris "Mother" Jones

"No matter the fight, don't be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies." - Militant labor organizer Mary "Mother" Jones, one mean maternal unit to mess with.

(Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, compiled by Autumn Stephens.)

Cultivate Modesty, Thinking About Myself, Edith Sitwell

“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself.” - Poet Edith Sitwell, letter-perfect in the role of eccentric English Dame.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 3.

Live Together as Brothers, Perish, Martin Luther King Jr.

"We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King, Jr

From http://www.inc.com/marla-tabaka/31-martin-luther-king-jr-quotes-to-inspire-greatness-in-you.html.

Trouble, Truths, Rebecca West

"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple." - Rebecca West

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/rebecca_west_108172.

Attempts the Absurd, Achieve the Impossible, Robin Morgan

"Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible." - Robin Morgan

Found on AZQuotes at http://www.azquotes.com/quote/528855.

Cleaning Your House, Shoveling the Walk, Phyllis Diller

“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is lie shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.” - Phyllis Diller

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 170.

Comedy, Tragedy, Humor, Truth, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radner

“Comedy is tragedy, plus time.” - Carol Burnett

“Humor is just truth, only faster.” - Gilda Radner

Both of these quotes were found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 54.

Affirming Human Rights, Bella Abzug

"We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence." - Bella Abzug

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/bellaabzug688098.html

Amateurs, Inspiration, Stephen King

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Old Age, Sissies, Bette Davis

“Old age ain't no place for sissies.” - Bette Davis

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 74.

Photograph, Secret, Things Nobody Would See, My Favorite Thing, Diane Arbus

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” - Photographer Diane Arbus

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.” - Photographer Diane Arbus

“My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.” - Photographer Diane Arbus, whose penchant for peculiar-looking posers led her down some rather unusual paths.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 162.

Battle, Individual Rights of Women, Eleanor Roosevelt

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it." - Eleanor Roosevelt

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/eleanor_roosevelt_135678.

Last Tree, Last River, Last Fish, Money Cannot be Eaten, Cree Indian Proverb

"Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." - Cree Indian Proverb/Prophecy

This can be found at Quoteland.com on this page.

'Right to Work' Legislation, Working People, Eleanor Roosevelt

“I am opposed to 'right to work' legislation because it does nothing for working people, but instead gives employers the right to exploit labor.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

Found on Goodreads. Click here to view it.

Convert to any Religion, Catholicism, Female Saints, Virgin Mary, Margaret Atwood

“If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.” - Margaret Atwood, Canada's pre-eminent pagan novelist, poet, and “high priestes of angst.”

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 108.

Horror of Death, Forgotten, Remember Me, Emily Dickinson

“I have a horror of death; the dead are so soon forgotten. But when I die, they'll have to remember me.” - Emily Dickinson, a poet far too singular to slip anybody's mind.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 6.

Heaven, Breath, Sojourner Truth

“To someone who commented that she couldn't get to heaven with smoke on her breath: 'Yes, child, but when I goes to heaven I expect to leave my breath behind.'” - Sojourner Truth

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 115.

Life, Glorious Cycle of Song, Dorothy Parker

"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,

A medley of extemporanea;

And love is a thing that can never go wrong;

And I am Marie of Romania."

Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment" US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967), Quotation #126 at Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations.

Duty, Solidarity, Elie Wiesel

"This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others." - Elie Wiesel

This can be found at http://www.wisdomquotes.com/authors/elie-wiesel/.

No Greater Gift, Impact on the World, Better, Gloria Steinem

"There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better." - Gloria Steinem

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/gloria_steinem_690718.

Oligarchy, Democracy, American Political System, Jimmy Carter

"We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life." - Jimmy Carter

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/jimmy_carter_753683.

Fascinated, Extraordinary, Ordinary, Magdalen Nabb

“Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary.” - Magdalen Nabb

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 170.

Strength, Courage, Confidence, Eleanor Roosevelt

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'" - Eleanor Roosevelt

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/eleanor_roosevelt_121157.