Monday, December 30, 2019

Loneliness, Being Unwanted, Most Terrible Poverty, Mother Teresa

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” - Mother Teresa

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 97.

Sunday, December 29, 2019

Friday, December 27, 2019

Virtues, Dangers, Shared Laughter, Francoise Sagan

“One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.” - Francoise Sagan

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 84.

Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Something to Eat, Love in Your Life, 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.

Monday, December 23, 2019

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.

Sunday, December 22, 2019

Friday, December 20, 2019

Shallow and Arrogant, Self-Made, Notable Achievements, Walt Disney

“It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.” - Walt Disney

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 63.

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Peaceful Revolution, John F. Kennedy

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible with make violent revolution inevitable.” - John F. Kennedy

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 84.

Monday, December 16, 2019

Not Despair, Overwhelmed, Fight, Sen. Kamala Harris

“We must not despair. We must not be overwhelmed or throw up our hands. It is time to roll up our sleeves and fight for who we are.” - Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.)

From Ms. Magazine special election issue, Fall, 2016 page 11.

Note: Sen. Kamal Harris was the Senator-Elect when the above quote was published in Ms. Magazine; she is now Senator from California.

Saturday, December 14, 2019

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Sorrow's Kitchen, 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.

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

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

“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.

Monday, December 9, 2019

Saturday, December 7, 2019

Date Which Will Live in Infamy, Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt on the morning after the Pearl Harbor attack

I wanted to post this to commemorate the attack on Pearl Harbor, which "helped shape the course of World War II."

Found on Pearl Harbor Warbirds at https://pearlharborwarbirds.com/12-powerful-pearl-harbor-quotes/.

Friday, December 6, 2019

Idealists, Throw Caution to the Winds, Emma Goldman

“Idealists...foolish enough to throw caution to the winds...have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.” - Emma Goldman

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 24.

Thursday, December 5, 2019

Lie Habitually, Way of Life, Lose Contact, Sleeping Pills, Truth, Adrienne Rich

“To lie habitually, as a way of life, is to lose contact with the unconscious. It is like taking sleeping pills, which confer sleep but blot out dreaming. The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else.” - Adrienne Rich

From The Sun, May 2017, pg.48, “Sunbeams”

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Breast Cancer, Surgery, Golden Retriever, Linda Ellerbee

On her breast cancer: “A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prothesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling 'Hey, come back here with my breast!'” - Linda Ellerbee

Sometimes it helps if you can laugh at yourself during the rough times.

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

Sunday, December 1, 2019

Tell a Lie, Believe It, Dick Gregory

“It is one thing to tell a lie and quite another thing to believe it.” - Dick Gregory

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

Thursday, November 28, 2019

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Monday, November 25, 2019

Freedom of Speech, Dumb and Silent, George Washington

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” - George Washington

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 66.

Sunday, November 24, 2019

Just Do It, One Foot Before the Other, You Fight, Business of Living, Elizabeth Taylor

“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other and, God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way.” - Elizabeth Taylor

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 94.

Saturday, November 23, 2019

Friday, November 22, 2019

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Saturday, November 16, 2019

Friday, November 15, 2019

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Real Courage, You Know You're Licked, You 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.

Sunday, November 10, 2019

Remember the Ladies, Ancestors, Unlimited Power, Men, Abigail Adams

“Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by an Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.” - Abigail Adams, wife of the second president of the United States of America.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 47.

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Press, Dangerous and Stupid Path, Politics, Public Office, Molly Ivins

“The press went tearing off down a very dangerous and stupid path in '88 when they wrote about Hart's affairs. After twenty-five years of watching politics I have never been able to cite any correlation whatever between who these guys screw and how they perform in public office. The question is who they screw in their public capacity.” - Molly Ivins

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 93.

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Best Prize, Chance to Work Hard, Theodore Roosevelt

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” - Theodore Roosevelt

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 10.

Monday, November 4, 2019

Too Extreme, Social Ills, Emma Goldman

“One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; besides, the extreme thing is generally the true thing.” - Emma Goldman. Often arrested for anarchy, “Red Emma” had plenty of solitary time to contemplate the numerous sins of the state.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 51.

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Monsters, Ghosts, Sometimes, 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.

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Struggle, Never-Ending Process, Freedom, 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”

Sunday, October 27, 2019

Friday, October 25, 2019

One Thing, People were Afraid of, Black Woman, Caricature, Michelle Obama

"The one thing they knew people were afraid of was the strength of a black woman. So they turned that into a caricature." - former First Lady Michelle Obama at the Essence Festival in New Orleans in Juyl, reflecting on the attacks she faced when her husband was in office.

From Ms. Magazine, Fall 2019 issue, page 6.

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Monday, October 21, 2019

That Complicated, Equality for Women, Basic Principle, Equal Rights Amendment, John Oliver

"None of this is that complicated. Equality for women should be as a basic principle of our society. If you think it already is, great, all the more reason for us to write it down. And if you think it isn't, then we badly need the ERA." - John Oliver, in a segment on the Equal Rights Amendment during Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

From Ms. Magazine, Fall 2019 issue, page 6.

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Prejudices, Education, Charlotte Bronte

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.” - Charlotte Bronte

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 94.

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

No Vote, Without Us, Florida state Sen. Lauren Book

"No vote about us without us." - Florida state Sen. Lauren Book (D) to the Tallahassee Democrat, summing up her proposed amendment to the state constitution, which would prohibit the Florida legislature from passing bills that limit women's access to abortion unless 50 percent of the House and Senate are omen; men currently make up 70 percent of both chambers.

From Ms. Magazine, Fall 2019 issue, page 6.

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Saving Our Planet, Lifting People, Global Health, Women's Empowerment, Solutions, Ban Ki-moon

"Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all." - Ban Ki-moon

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ban_kimoon_643813.

Monday, October 14, 2019

Man Must Cease, Environment, Exercise His Will, Albert Schweitzer

“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility.” - Albert Schweitzer

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 34.

Saturday, October 12, 2019

Every Great Dream, Dreamer, Change the World, Harriet Tubman

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." - Harriet Tubman

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/harriet_tubman_310306.

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

I Write for Those Women, Do Not Have a Voice, Terrified, Silence Would Save Us, It Won't, Audre Lorde

"I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't." - Audre Lorde

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/audre_lorde_409007/

Friday, October 4, 2019

What is Important, Meaningful Life, 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.

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Books, Important, World After World, 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, in Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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

Monday, September 30, 2019

Sunday, September 29, 2019

Poetry, Dream and Vision, Audre Lorde

"Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before." - Audre Lorde

Found on BrainyQuote. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/audre_lorde_408960.

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Saturday, September 21, 2019

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Old Age, Plane, Flying Through a Storm, Golda Meir

“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.” - Golda Meir

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 21.

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Moral Test of Government, Children, Elderly, Handicapped, Hubert H. Humphrey

"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped." - Hubert H. Humphrey

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/hubert_h_humphrey_163688.

Monday, September 16, 2019

Saturday, September 14, 2019

Friday, September 13, 2019

Definition of Maturity, Realize Someone is a Jackass, Brett Butler

“The older I get, the simpler the definition of maturity seems: it's the length of time between when I realize someone is a jackass and when I tell them that they're one.” - Brett Butler

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 76.

Monday, September 9, 2019

If It's Going to Be Done, Go Ahead, Anita Baker

“I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.” - Anita Baker

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 22.

Sunday, September 8, 2019

Best Executive, Sense Enough, Self-Restraint, Theodore Roosevelt

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and enough self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” - Theodore Roosevelt

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 10.

Saturday, September 7, 2019

Thursday, September 5, 2019

Feel Inferior, Consent, Eleanor Roosevelt

“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 36.

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Monday, September 2, 2019

Talent, Table Salt, 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.

Sunday, September 1, 2019

Change Their Party, Principles, Winston Churchill

“Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.” - Winston Churchill

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 6.

Saturday, August 31, 2019

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.

Friday, August 30, 2019

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.

Thursday, August 29, 2019

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

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.

Monday, August 26, 2019

Republican Answer, Democratic Answer, Right Answer, Accept Our Own Responsibility, 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.

Saturday, August 24, 2019

You Must Write, Lurk in Libraries, Ray Bradbury

“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.” ― Ray Bradbury

Found on Goodreads. Click here for more Ray Bradbury quotes.

Friday, August 23, 2019

Breathe That Air, Live Here, Drink That Water, 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”

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Hard to Fight, Outposts, Sally Kempton

“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” - Sally Kempton

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

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Life, Marie of Romania, Not So Deep as a Well, 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.

Monday, August 19, 2019

Saturday, August 17, 2019

Truth is Proper, All Times, Frederick Douglass

“Truth is proper and beautiful at all times and in all places.” - Frederick Douglass

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

Thursday, August 15, 2019

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

No One is Born Hating, 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”.

Sunday, August 11, 2019

Energy You Drew On, That's the Scary Part, You Don't Stop Being a Kid All at Once, Richie, It, Stephen King

“The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself -- that slipped away somewhere between eighteen and twenty-four, to be replaced by something much duller, something as bogus as coke high: purpose, maybe, or goals, or whatever rah-rah Junior Chamber of Commerce word you wanted to use. It was no big deal; it didn't go all at once with a bang. And maybe, Richie thought, that's the scary part. How you don't stop being a kid all at once, with a big explosive bang, like one of that clown's trick balloons with the Burma-Shave slogans on the sides. The kid in you just leaked out, like the air out of a tire. And one day you looked in the mirror and there was a grownup looking back at you. You could go on wearing blue-jeans, you could keep going to Springsteen and Seger concerts, you could dye your hair, but that was a grownup's face in the mirror just the same. It all happened while you were asleep, maybe, like a visit from a Tooth Fairy.” - Stephen King, It.

Found on Goodreads, at https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7950136-the-energy-you-drew-on-so-extravagantly-when-you-were.

Saturday, August 10, 2019

Thursday, August 8, 2019

Believe Absurdities, Commit Atrocities, Voltaire

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire

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

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

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.

Monday, August 5, 2019

Older I Get, Greater Power, Snowball, 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.

Saturday, August 3, 2019

Manners, Feelings, Awareness, Emily Post

“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.” - Emily Post

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 177.

Friday, August 2, 2019

Love, Checkers, Man to 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.

Thursday, August 1, 2019

Democracy, Atticus Finch, Minorities, Jim Crow, Slavery, President Barack Obama

"...If our democracy is to work the way it should in this increasingly diverse nation, then each one of us need to try to heed the advice of a great character in American fiction, Atticus Finch, who said 'You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.'

"For blacks and other minority groups, that means tying our own very real struggles for justice to the challenges that a lot of people in this country face. Not only the refugee or the immigrant or the rural poor or the transgender American, but also the middle-aged white guy who from the outside may seem like he’s got all the advantages, but has seen his world upended by economic, and cultural, and technological change.

"We have to pay attention and listen.

"For white Americans, it means acknowledging that the effects of slavery and Jim Crow didn’t suddenly vanish in the ’60s; that when minority groups voice discontent, they’re not just engaging in reverse racism or practicing political correctness; when they wage peaceful protest, they’re not demanding special treatment, but the equal treatment that our founders promised.

"For native-born Americans, it means reminding ourselves that the stereotypes about immigrants today were said, almost word for word, about the Irish, and Italians, and Poles, who it was said were going to destroy the fundamental character of America. And as it turned out, America wasn’t weakened by the presence of these newcomers; these newcomers embraced this nation’s creed, and this nation was strengthened.

"So regardless of the station we occupy; we all have to try harder; we all have to start with the premise that each of our fellow citizens loves this country just as much as we do; that they value hard work and family just like we do; that their children are just as curious and hopeful and worthy of love as our own." - President Barack Obama, January 10, 2017, part of farewell speech

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

We the People, Men 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.

Sunday, July 21, 2019

What Feminism Is, Door Mat, Prostitute, 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.

Monday, July 15, 2019

Good Parents, Good Looks, Good Personality, Good Cash, Sophie Tucker

“From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.” - Sophie Tucker

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 9.

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Struggle for Human Rights, Social Justice, 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.

Monday, July 8, 2019

Affirming Human Rights, Women and Girls, 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

Thursday, July 4, 2019

Have to Love a Nation, Not with a Parade of Guns, Tanks, Soldiers, White House, Family Picnics, Erma Bombeck

"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism." - Erma Bombeck

Found on AZ Quotes. Read more at https://www.azquotes.com/quote/513368.

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Mistakes, Action, Becoming Yourself, Anne Lamott

“You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.” - Anne Lamott

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 85.

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Fighting, Sexism, Xenophobia, Climate Change, Ms. Magazine

“We are fighting for the right to live in the future. We will continue to fight against sexism, homophobia, racism, xenophobia and global climate change until the future is ours.” - Feminist Majoritiy Foundation East Coast Interns

From Ms. Magazine special election issue, Fall, 2016 page 11.

Monday, July 1, 2019

Monday, June 24, 2019

Changing the World, Big Bang, Evolution, Katie Couric

“Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you.” - Katie Couric

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 24.

Sunday, June 23, 2019

Gentleman, 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.

Thursday, June 20, 2019

Commercial, Drinking Beer, Cleaning Fish, Warning, Diane Jordan

“There's a commercial where guys sit around drinking beer, cleaning fish, wiping their noses on their sleeves and saying 'It doesn't get any better than this.' That's not a commercial. That's a warning.” - Diane Jordan

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

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

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.

Monday, June 17, 2019

Fight, Ladylike, God, Women, Mary "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.

Sunday, June 16, 2019

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.

Saturday, June 15, 2019

Life, Support Yourself, Katharine Hepburn

“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.” - Katharine Hepburn

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 22.

Friday, June 14, 2019

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Disappointed, Fail, Doomed, Beverly Sills

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.” - Beverly Sills

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 25.

Friday, June 7, 2019

No Drug, Alcohol, Ills of Society, Test Them, Stupidity, Love of Power, P. J. O'Rourke

"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." P. J. O'Rourke

Found on BrainyQuote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/p_j_orourke_106010.

Thursday, June 6, 2019

What's Really Terrible, Second-Rate, Pretend, Doris Lessing

“What's really terrible is to pretend that second-rate is the first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do, or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.” - Doris Lessing

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 94.

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Remember Anything, Happened or Not, Mark Twain

“When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.” - Mark Twain

Can be found at Goodreads or by clicking here.

Sunday, June 2, 2019

Saturday, June 1, 2019

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Cub, Lion, Howl, 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.

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

No Matter the Fight, Ladylike, Mary "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.

Friday, May 24, 2019

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Books are As Important, Anything Else on Earth, Miracle, 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, in Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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

Sunday, May 19, 2019

Struggle, Never-Ending Process, Freedom, 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”

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Finding a Man, Ain't a Fool, Gladiola Montana

“Finding a man ain't all that hard. Finding one that ain't a fool is a lot harder.” - Gladiola Montana

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 77. Unfortunately, there are fools of all genders...

Sunday, May 12, 2019

One Learns, Keep Silent, 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.

Thursday, May 9, 2019

Ache From Smiling, Expected to Beam, 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

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 15.

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Strong Men, Role Models, Women, Michelle Obama

“Because let's be very clear, strong men, men who are truly role models, don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful.” - First lady Michelle Obama, campaigning for Clinton in October after the release of Donald Trump's Access Hollywood video.

From Ms Magazine: Winter 2016, page 6.

Monday, May 6, 2019

You Just Do It, Force Yourself, Business of Living, Elizabeth Taylor

“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other and, God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way.” - Elizabeth Taylor

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 94.

Sunday, May 5, 2019

Kind Words, Endless, Mother Teresa

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” - Mother Teresa

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 175.

Saturday, May 4, 2019

Thursday, May 2, 2019

One Thing, Tell a Lie, Believe It, Dick Gregory

“It is one thing to tell a lie and quite another thing to believe it.” - Dick Gregory

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

Sunday, April 28, 2019

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.

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Seriously, Chemist, Gertrude B. Elion

“Nobody...took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.” - Gertrude B. Elion

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 56.

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

What We Need, Not Hatred, Not Violence, Love and 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”.

Friday, April 19, 2019

Speak, Shut Me Up, Hedda Hopper

“I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.” - God-like gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. With a flick of her poisonous pen, she could write a Hollywood hopeful right out of the picture.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 11.

Friday, April 12, 2019

Homosexual, Heterosexual, Headache, Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Oh, you mean I'm homosexual! Of course I am, and heterosexual too. But what's that got to do with my headache?” - Famed meter maid Edna St. Vincent Millay, whose doctor held that love between ladies led to malaise.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 42.

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Remember the Ladies, Unlimited Power, Tyrants, Abigail Adams

“Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by an Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.” - Abigail Adams, wife of the second president of the United States of America.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 47.

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Distrust Those People, God Wants Them to Do, Desires, Susan B. Anthony

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.” - Susan B. Anthony, History of Woman Suffrage

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

Monday, April 8, 2019

Didn't Belong, Differentness, Asset, Bette Midler

“I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.” - Bette Midler

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 39.

Sunday, April 7, 2019

Live For, Make Life Less Difficult, George Eliot

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?” - George Eliot

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 41.

Saturday, April 6, 2019