Every Individual Matters, Jane Goodall

“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.” ― Jane Goodall

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

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.

If You Don't Vote, 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.

No Sin, Resistance to Change, Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.” - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 48.

Alone and Scared, Want to Live, Yenifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick

“I’m alone and scared. … Where is my mom. … I want to live.” - 27-year-old Yenifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick, texting her husband from an ambulance and the hospital in the weeks before her death from pregnancy-related hypertension and pulmonary edema, according to The New Yorker; an abortion likely would have saved her life, but she was pregnant in Texas, and the Supreme Court had just overturned Roe.

Found in Ms. Magazine, Spring 2024, page 6.

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.

Hold a Job, Chromosomes, Bella Abzug

“The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.” - Bella Abzug, three-term U.S. Congresswoman from New York, known both for the unconventional contents of her cranium and her penchant for placing ladylike chapeaux on it.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 55.