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.