“No man is above the law and no man below it.” - Theodore Roosevelt
Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 10.
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Friday, April 10, 2026
Perfection, Content, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/128382.Leo_Tolstoy.
Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/128382.Leo_Tolstoy.
Thursday, April 9, 2026
Joanna Come Lately, Bella Abzug
“I'm no Joanna come lately, believe me, I've been here all along – outside.” - Bella Abzug, on being elected to U.S. House of Representatives in 1971; 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.
Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 55.
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Women, Control, Skin In, Skin Out, Gloria Steinem
“If women can't control our lives from the skin in, we can't control our lives from the skin out.” - 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 36.
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 36.
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Saying to Myself, Live, Say, Paint, Georgia O'Keeffe
“One day I found myself saying to myself, 'I can't live where I want to. I can't even say what I want to!' I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.” - 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.
Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 161.
Monday, April 6, 2026
Marriage, Luxury, Necessity, Susan B. Anthony
"Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it." - Susan B. Anthony
Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/susan_b_anthony_765253.
Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/susan_b_anthony_765253.
Sunday, April 5, 2026
Farming, Easy, Pencil, Corn Field, Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/dwight_d_eisenhower_112033.
Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/dwight_d_eisenhower_112033.
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