What We Do, What We Say, What We Say We Believe, Bell Hooks

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

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

Creep, Soar, Helen Keller

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” - Helen Keller

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 26.

Doing What You Do, Something, Grace Paley

“You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.” - Grace Paley, failed poet, acclaimed short story writer.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 163.

Protection of Man, Protect Herself, Susan B. Anthony

"Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself." - Susan B. Anthony, speech in San Francisco, Jul. 1871

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

Stupidity, Retrospect, Missed Chances, Stephen King

“Stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.” - Stephen King, '11/22/63'

Don't Vote, Don't Count, Gloria Steinem

“If you don't vote, you don't count.” - 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 24.

Agonize, Organize, Florynce Kennedy

“Don't agonize. Organize.” - Fleet-tongued Florynce Kennedy. Fortunately, the Ur-activist of the Sixties and Seventies seldom stayed down in the dumps for long.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 70.

Endure, Dream, Fail, Survive, Maya Angelou

“We can endure, dream, fail...and still survive.” - Maya Angelou, in Washington Post (Jan. 19, 1993)

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 11.

Really in Earnest, Anything, Nothing, Susan B. Anthony

“Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.” - 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.

After Silence, Music, Aldous Huxley

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3487.Aldous_Huxley.

Burn Books, Destroy a Culture, Stop Reading Them, 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.

Sit on the Sidelines, Fight On, Call to Action, Eleanor Smeal, Kathy Spillar

"This is not the time for feminists to sit on the sidelines. We must fight on. We have come too far and worked too hard to go back now.

"This is a call to action. If you have the ability, desire and drive to volunteer for your favorite feminist cause or organization, the time to do so is now. Clinics need escorts; nonprofits need volunteer researchers, event organizers, administrators, lawyers, artists, designers, computer techies and fundraisers. Everyone and every skill count. We all need your passion, encouragement, skills, commitment, financial support—big or small." Eleanor Smeal, Kathy Spillar, Ms. Magazine, from the special election issue's and blog's "This is a Call to Action".

Monsters, Ghosts, They Win, Stephen King

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” - Stephen King

People Will Forget, Said, Did, Feel, Maya Angelou

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou

Found on Goodreads. Find more here.

Obey All the Rules, Miss, Fun, Katharine Hepburn

“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” - Katharine Hepburn

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 87.

Grow Very Old, Slowly as Possible, Irene Mayer Selznick

“I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.” - Irene Mayer Selznick

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 153.

“In youth we learn; in age we understand.” - Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 154.

Experience, Happens, Man, Aldous Huxley

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” ― Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3487.Aldous_Huxley.

Throw Up Our Hands, Roll Up Our Sleeves, Organize, Moblize, Former Vice President Kamala Harris

“This is not a time to throw up our hands. This is a time to roll up our sleeves. This is a time to organize, mobilize and stay engaged for the sake of freedom, justice and the future that we all know we can build together.” - Former Vice President Kamala Harris, Nov. 6, 2024

Found in Ms. Magazine, Winter 2025, page 1.

Only Thing, Regret, Make All the Same Mistakes, Tallulah Bankhead

“The only thing I regret about my life is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make all the same mistakes – only sooner.” - Tallulah Bankhead

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 37.

The Future, Linda Moakes

“The future isn't what it used to be.” - Linda Moakes

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 123.

Life, Too Short, Charlotte Bronte

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.” - Charlotte Bronte

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 37.

Writing, Making Money, Getting Famous, Enriching YourOwn Life, 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' Stephen King quotes section.

Organize, Agitate, Educate, Susan B. Anthony

"Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry." - Susan B. Anthony

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/susan_b_anthony_401742.

Drunk on Writing, Reality, 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.

Plain Women, Beautiful, Katharine Hepburn

“Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.” - Katharine Hepburn.”

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 102.

Relationships, Commitment, Cornel West, Bell Hooks

“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.

Men Do Not Learn, Lessons, History, Aldous Huxley

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” ― Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3487.Aldous_Huxley.

Old Age, Sissies, Bette Davis

“Old age ain't no place for sissies.” - Bette Davis

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

Enjoy Looking at Paintings, Georgia O'Keeffe

“I don't much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.” - Georgia O'Keeffe, doyenne of the painted desert. Convent-educated O'Keeffe also didn't enjoy hearing about the sexual symbolism of her work, insisting that any putative crotch imagery was nothing but a crock.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 161.

Heart, Pure, Driven Slush, Tallulah Bankhead

“My heart is as pure as the driven slush.” - Tallulah Bankhead

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 34.

Prolong Slavery, Human History, Susan B. Anthony

"The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history." - Susan B. Anthony, introduction, History of Woman Suffrage

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