Art, Physics, Martyl

“Art is hard; physics is easy.” - Martyl

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 31.

No Control, Adult Bodies, Sheriff, None of My Business, Supreme Court, Attempting to Impose, Supposed Morals, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar

“As their dad, I have no control over their adult bodies. As their sheriff, it is absolutely none of my business. ...Shame on the Supreme Court and the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., and Austin who are attempting to impose their own supposed morals on others. They will not use my badge or the color of my office to do so. My job is chasing predators, rapists, and human traffickers, not someone exercising a right.” - Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar, the father of two daughters, in a Facebook post declaring his opposition to arresting Texas women for having abortions.Found in Ms. Magazine, Fall 2022, page 4.

Right on, Sheriff Salazar!

Home, Dangerous, Road, Gloria Steinem

“For women, home is more dangerous than the road.” – (“Whether by dowry murders in India, honor killings in Egypt, or domestic violence in the United States, statistics show that women are most likely to be beaten or killed at home by men they know.”) - 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 35.

Scariest Moment, Just Before You Start, Stephen King

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Found in Goodreads Stephen King quotes section.

Leave Something Behind, 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.

Before the Beginning, Great Brilliance, Chaos, Something Great, Foolish, I Ching

"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd." — I Ching

Found on Inspirational Quotations at https://inspiration.rightattitudes.com/authors/i-ching/.

Equal Rights Amendment, Justice Antonin Scalia, Constitution, Discrimination, Nancy Pelosi

“There are some who say the Equal Rights Amendment is not needed. To them, I quote the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who said, ‘Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It does not.’” - Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), speaking on the House floor in support of a joint resolution to remove the timeline on ERA ratification.

Found in Ms. Magazine, Spring 2021, page 6.

You Never Know, Strong, Your Only Choice, Bob Marley

"You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice." - Bob Marley

Found on Country Living at https://www.countryliving.com/life/g5054/quotes-about-strength/?slide=8.

Reward for Conformity, Everyone Likes You, Rita Mae Brown

“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.” - Rita Mae Brown

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 16.

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.

Burn Books, Destroy a Culture, Ray Bradbury

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ― Ray Bradbury

Found on Goodreads; click here.

Your Feet in the Right Place, Stand Firm, Abraham Lincoln

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." - Abraham Lincoln

Found on Country Living at https://www.countryliving.com/life/g5054/quotes-about-strength/?slide=4.

Dance, Broken Open, Torn the Bandage Off, Fighting, Free, Rumi

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.” ― Rumi

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/875661.Rumi.

Peacemaker, Hard, Individually Challenge Authority, Harder, Derrick Bell, Race in America: The Struggle for Equality

“If the way of the peacemaker is hard, that of those who individually challenge authority is even harder.” - Derrick Bell, in Race in America: The Struggle for Equality, 1993

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 17.

Love, The Sea, Moving Thing, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/15151.Zora_Neale_Hurston.

Pregnant, Legislators, Personhood and Autonomy, Jia Tolentino

“Anyone who can get pregnant must now face the reality that half of the country is in the hands of legislators who believe that your personhood and autonomy are conditional – who believe that, if you are impregnated by another person, under any circumstance, you have a legal and moral duty to undergo pregnancy, delivery, and, in all likelihood, two decades or more of caregiving, no matter the permanent and potentially devastating consequences for your body, you heart, your mind, your family, your ability to put food on the table, your plans, your aspirations, your life.” - Writer Jia Tolentino in an op-ed for The New Yorker.

Found in Ms. Magazine, Fall 2022 issue, page 4.

True Function of Age, Memory, Recording, Rita Mae Brown

“I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.” - Rita Mae Brown

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 20.

Human, Human Rights, James Brown

“I been human all my life, but we don't get human rights.” - James Brown, in Rolling Stone, April 6, 1989

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 26.

Yesterday, Clever, Change the World, Today, Wise, Changing Myself, Rumi

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ― Rumi

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/875661.Rumi.

Never Too Late, Live a Life You're Proud Of, Strength to Start Over Again, F. Scott Fitzgerald

"For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over again." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Found on Country Living at https://www.countryliving.com/life/g5054/quotes-about-strength/?slide=3.

Vote, Powerful Nonviolent Change Agecnt, Rep. John Lewis

“The vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society.” - The late Rep. John Lewis

Found on page 1, Ms. Magazine, Fall 2020

Courage, Virtures, Maya Angelou

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently." - Maya Angelou

Found on Country Living at https://www.countryliving.com/life/g5054/quotes-about-strength/?slide=18.

Courage, Unlikely Places, J. R. R. Tolkien

"Courage is found in unlikely places." - J. R. R. Tolkien

Found on Country Living at https://www.countryliving.com/life/g5054/quotes-about-strength/?slide=16.

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.

No Vote, Without Us, 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 women; men currently make up 70 percent of both chambers.

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

Hero, Ordinary Individual, Strength to Persevere, Endure, Overwhelming Obstacles, Christopher Reeves

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." - Christopher Reeves

Found on Country Living at https://www.countryliving.com/life/g5054/quotes-about-strength/?slide=1.

Your Task, Seek for Love, Barriers, Rumi

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ― Rumi

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/875661.Rumi.

Change, Cracks Everything Open, Dorothy Allison

“Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.” ― Dorothy Allison

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5599.Dorothy_Allison.