Better Immersion, Live Untouched, Tillie Olsen

“Better immersion than to live untouched.” - Tillie Olsen, author

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 117.

True Photograph, Explained, Contained in Words, Ansel Adams

"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words." - Ansel Adams

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ansel_adams_141169.

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.

Always Have Choices, Choice of Attitude, Judith M. Knowlton

“I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.” - Judith M. Knowlton

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 39.

Can't Dance, Not My Revolution, Emma Goldman

“If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.” ― Emma Goldman

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/15591.Emma_Goldman.

One Thing, Majority Rule, Person's Conscience, Harper Lee

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.” - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 54.

Writing, Making Money, Getting Famous, Enriching the Lives, Stephen King

“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Found in Goodreads at Stephen King quotes.

Fight Our Own Government, Save the Environment, Ansel Adams

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment." - Ansel Adams

Found on Brainy Quote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ansel_adams_161651.

Touch the Future, Teach, Christa McAuliffe

“I touch the future. I teach.” - Christa McAuliffe

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 85.

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

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/89863.Tillie_Olsen.

Over Sixty, Respectability, Shelley Winters

“Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.” - Shelley Winters

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 24.

Love, Powerful, Bessie Head

“Love is so powerful, it's like unseen flowers under your feet as you walk.” - Bessie Head, A Question of Power (1973)

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 92.

Deep Trouble, Rich Life, Serving Others, Courage to Question, Cornel West

“The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.” ― Cornel West

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6176.Cornel_West.

No One Worth Possessing, Sara Teasdale

“No one worth possessing/Can be quite possessed.” - Sara Teasdale

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 207.

Changing Husbands, Changing Troubles, Kathleen Norris

“Changing husbands is only changing troubles.” - Kathleen Norris

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 48.

What We Do, What We Say, Bell Hooks

“What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.” - Bell Hooks

Found on Inspiring Quotes at https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/1212-bell-hooks.

Recognise, Relationships, Commitment, Love, Patience, Persistence, Cornel West

“We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.” - Cornel West, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life, by bell hooks

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6176.Cornel_West.

Humor, Antidote to Isolation, Elizabeth Janeway

“Humor is an antidote to isolation.” - Elizabeth Janeway

Found on Inspiring Quotes at https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/4109-elizabeth-janeway.

Much Had Been Said and Sung, Old Women, Harriet Beecher Stowe

“So much had been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?” - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 24.

Can't Be Brave, Wonderful Things, Mary Tyler Moore

“You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.” - Mary Tyler Moore

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 77.

Books Are As Important As Anything Else, World After 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, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7113.Anne_Lamott.

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.

Never Understand a Person, His 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.

Love, Women, Equals, Elizabeth Janeway

“Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.” - Elizabeth Janeway

Found on Inspiring Quotes at https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/4109-elizabeth-janeway.

Big Difference, Help, Dependent, Make You Independent, Gloria Steinem

“Every woman knows there is a big difference between help that is designed to keep you dependent, and help that is designed to make you independent.” - Gloria Steinem

Found in The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion, by Gloria Steinem, page93.

Mystery of Grace, It Meets Us Where We Are, Anne Lamott

“I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.” ― Anne Lamott

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7113.Anne_Lamott.

Many Ways, Going Forward, Standing Still, Franklin D. Roosevelt

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/franklin_d_roosevelt_101696.

Lose Someone, Your Heart Will Be Badly Broken, Broken Leg, Learn to Dance, Anne Lamott

“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.” ― Anne Lamott

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7113.Anne_Lamott.

Leave Something Behind, Change Something, Ray Bradbury

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

"It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Found on Goodreads. Click here to see this and other Ray Bradbury quotes.

Real Courage, Gun, Know You're Licked Before You Begin, 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.

What Our Bodies Can Do, More Important, How They Look, Sports, Gloria Steinem

“What our bodies can do is way more important than how they look. Sports help young women realize that our bodies are instruments, not ornaments.” - Gloria Steinem

Found in The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion, by Gloria Steinem, page 37.