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.

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.

Want to be Alone, Left Alone, Difference, Greta Garbo

"I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference." - Greta Garbo

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/greta_garbo_388744.

Weak, Forgive, Attribute of the Strong, Mahatma Gandhi

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” - Mahatma Gandhi

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 80.

Forces in America, Divide Us, Must Go Forward, John Lewis

"There are still forces in America that want to divide us along racial lines, religious lines, sex, class. But we've come too far; we've made too much progress to stop or to pull back. We must go forward. And I believe we will get there." - John Lewis

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/john_lewis_810342.

Nation of Sheep, Government of Wolves, 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.

Humor, Civilization, Erma Bombeck

"When humor goes, there goes civilization." - Erma Bombeck

Found on BrainyQuote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/erma_bombeck_131317.

Sit Down, Read, Educate Yourself, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

"Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts." - Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/mary_harris_jones_232150.

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

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/margaret_mead_100502.

Freedom, Economic Security, Dictatorships, Franklin D. Roosevelt

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/franklin_d_roosevelt_134721.

Stand Up, Speak Up, Speak Out, Help, John Lewis

"We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for people who are being discriminated against. And it doesn't matter whether they are black or white, Latino, Asian or Native American, whether they are straight or gay, Muslim, Christian, or Jews." - John Lewis

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/john_lewis_810378.

Social Change, Brought About, 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.

No Woman, Control, Margaret Sanger

“No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.” - Margaret Sanger

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 47.

Can, Should, 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

Burn Books, Destroy a Culture, Stop Reading, 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 at https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=✓&q=ray+bradbury&commit=Search.

Liberate a Woman, Liberate a Man, Margaret Mead

"Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man." - Margaret Mead

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/margaret_mead_105174.

Those Who Do the Work, Those Who Take the Credit, Indira Gandhi

“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people – those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.” - Indira Gandhi

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 78.

Most Powerful Woman, Element of Misogyny, Nancy Pelosi

“Every time I get introduced as the most powerful woman, I almost cry, because I wish that were not true. I so wish that we had a woman president of the United States, and we came very close to doing that. ...I do think there’s a certain element of misogyny.” - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the highest-raning woman ever to serve in the U.S. government, speaking at her weekly news conference after Sen. Elizabeth Warren ended her presidential bid.

Found in Ms. Magazine, Spring 2020, page 6.

We the People, Male Citizens, Whole People, Women, 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.

Any 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.

Woman, Intellectual, Non-Fiction, Theory, Discrimination, Bell Hooks

“Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her way and perhaps even self-doubt because there aren't that many who've gone before you. And I think that the most powerful tool we can have is to be clear about our intent. To know what it is we want to do rather than going into institutions thinking that the institution is going to frame for us.” - Bell Hooks

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

Racism, White Person's Problem, Violence Against Women, Men's Problem, 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.

Your Task, 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.

Looked at a Problem, Solving, Do Something, Hillary Clinton

“If you’ve looked at a problem that needs solving in your community and thought to yourself, ‘Someone should really do something about that!’ I’ve got some news for you: That someone could be you.” - Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on National Run for Office Day, via Twitter.

Found in Ms. Magazine, Winter 2020, page 6.

Defend the Rights, Access to Care, Not Stopping Now, 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.

Judgments, Compassion, Anne McCaffrey

“Make no judgments where you have no compassion.” - Anne McCaffrey

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 125.

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.

We Are Becoming, Marry, Gloria Steinem

“We are becoming the men we wanted to marry.” ― Gloria Steinem

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/57108.Gloria_Steinem.

Power of Love, Love of Power, Peace, Jimi Hendrix

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” ― Jimi Hendrix

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7268.Jimi_Hendrix.

No Change, Contemplation, Bell Hooks, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

“There is no change without contemplation.” - bell hooks, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (Fall 1992)

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 98.