Defend the Rights, Access to Care, Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood

“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.

Make Life a Little Better, Community, Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you, that's what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one's community." - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Found on CNN at https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/19/politics/best-ruth-bader-ginsburg-quotes-trnd/index.html.

Abject Poverty, Standard of Living, Natural Resources, Jane Goodall

“We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.” ― Jane Goodall

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/18163.Jane_Goodall.

Texas Judge, Mifepristone, Scientists, Doctors, Sen. Amy Klobuchar

“One extreme Texas Judge decided Mifepristone isn’t safe for women. Seriously? Fact: Scientists and doctors reviewed it for … years and it has been legal and safe for over two decades. This opinion sets a dangerous precedent for our whole healthcare system.” - Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), responding on Twitter to Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling to rescind the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of misfepristone

Found in Ms. Magazine, Summer 2023, page 6.

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.

Too Angry, Keep Your Mouth Shut, Silent, Change, Michelle Obama

“Don't ever, ever let anyone tell you that you're too angry, or that you 'should keep your mouth shut.' There will always be those who want to keep you silent, to have you be seen but not heard, or maybe they don't even want to see you at all. But those people don't know your story, and if you listen to them, then nothing will ever change.” - Former First Lady Michelle Obama, speaking to the graduating class of 2020.

Found in Ms. Magazine, Fall 2020 issue, page 6.

Adult Bodies, None of My Business, Exercising a Right, Bexar Count Sheriff Javier Salazer

“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!

No One, Born Hating, Color of His Skin, Background, Religion, 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”.

Women on the Supreme Court, Nine, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"When I'm sometimes asked 'When will there be enough (women on the Supreme Court)?' and my answer is: 'When there are nine.' People are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that." - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Found on CNN at https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/19/politics/best-ruth-bader-ginsburg-quotes-trnd/index.html. RIP, RBG. A true hero and inspiration.

Moment of Time, Significant Power, Rachel Carson

“Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species – man – acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.” - Rachel Carson

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 45.

Makes a Difference, What Kind of Difference, Jane Goodall

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” ― Jane Goodall

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/18163.Jane_Goodall.

Problem, Needs Solving, Someone, 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.

Nation of Sheep, Government of Wolves, Defend Freedom, 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.

Applying Pressure, Despair, Resignation, Indifference, Elie Wiesel

"It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is not an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment." - Elie Wiesel

This can be found at http://www.wisdomquotes.com/authors/elie-wiesel/.

Concessions, Resonable, Comb My Hair, Jane Wallace

“I'll make some concessions if the request is reasonable. If someone tells me to comb my hair, I'll comb my hair. If someone tells me to dye it blond, they can go to hell.” - The darkly defiant Jane Wallace, CBS correspondent.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 27.

Vote, About Us, 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 women; men currently make up 70 percent of both chambers.

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

Literary History, Dark with Silence, Not Natural Silences, Tillie Olsen

“Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences--what Keats called agonie ennuyeuse (the tedious agony)--that necessary time for renewal, lying fallow, gestation, in the natural cycle of creation. The silences I speak of here are unnatural: the unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being, but cannot.” ― Tillie Olsen

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

Destroy, Your Power, Bell Hooks

“Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don't see it, but because they see it and don't want it to exist.” - Bell Hooks

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 119.

Vote, Most Powerful Nonviolent Change Agent, 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.

Terrorize a Whole Nation, Accomplices, Edward R. Murrow

"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices." - Edward R. Murrow

Can be found at Goodreads or by clicking here.

Give Up Their Power, Don't Have Any, Alice Walker

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.” ― Alice Walker

Found on GoodReads, here.

Time, Heels, Jane Ace

“Time wounds all heels.” - Jane Ace

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 126.

One Damn Thing After Another, Over and Over, Edna St. Vincent Millay

“It is not true that life is one damn thing after another – it's one damn thing over and over.” - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 65.

Prevent Injustice, Protest, Elie Wiesel

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." - Elie Wiesel

"We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else." - Elie Wiesel

Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/elie_wiesel.html.

Reality, Leading Cause of Stress, Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin

“Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.” - Writer Jane Wagner, the wry collaborative mind behind some of Lily Tomlin's best lines.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 15.

Worse Words, Cuss-Words, Tillie Olsen

“There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.” ― Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle

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

Drunk on Writing, Ray Bradbury

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1630.Ray_Bradbury.

Working Mother, Redundant, Jane Sellman

“The phrase 'working mother' is redundant.” - Jane Sellman

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 87.

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.

Friend, Silence, Right to Grow, Alice Walker

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” - Alice Walker

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 89.

Duty of Our Generation, Solidarity, Elie Wiesel

"This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others." - Elie Wiesel

This can be found at http://www.wisdomquotes.com/authors/elie-wiesel/.