Service, Rent, Earth, Shirley Chisholm

“Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.” - Shirley Chisholm

Found at Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/shirleychi398068.html.

Win a War, Win an Earthquake, Jeanette Rankin

“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” - Jeanette Rankin

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 127.

Horrors, Real Ones, Stephen King

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” ― Stephen King

Found on Goodreads. You can view it here.

Emotional, Stereotyping of Females, It's a Girl, Shirley Chisolm

"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'" - Shirley Chisholm

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/shirleychi101403.html.

Little Freedom, Free, Walter Cronkite

“There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.” – Walter Cronkite

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/walter_cronkite_124506.

System of Oppression, Institutionalized, Florynce Kennedy

"When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive." - Florynce Kennedy

Found on Brainyquote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/florynce_kennedy_397337.

Because Women's Work, Never Done, Underpaid, Unpaid, Boring, Joyce Stevens

"Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we don't we're frigid and if we love women it's because we can't get a "real" man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive and "unfeminine" and if we don't we're typical weak females and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man and if we don't we're unnatural and because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy we're made to feel guilty about abortion and...for lots of other reasons we are part of the women's liberation movement." - Author unknown, quoted in The Torch, 14 September 1987

I first read these words on a poster at Brigit Books in St. Petersburg, Florida. Brigit Books has long since closed (darn!). But I was able to find out that Joyce Stevens wrote the above quote as a Union Song for Women's Liberation Broadsheet, International Woman's Day, 1975.

Numerous links had this listed as "Author unknown, quoted in The Torch." While I was able to find links to several magazines and newsletters listed as The Torch, none of them were ones that had listed this quote. However, we now know who wrote these words.