Make Some Concessions, Reasonable, 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.

Cease to Make a Contribution, Begin to Die, Eleanor Roosevelt

"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die." - Eleanor Roosevelt

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/eleanor_roosevelt_121796.

Whoever is Happy, Anne Frank

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” - Anne Frank

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 98.

Pray for the Dead, Fight, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

"Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." - Mary Harris "Mother" Jones.

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/motherjone195568.html

Silence, Protect You, Audre Lorde

"Your silence will not protect you." - Audre Lorde

Found at Brainy Quote. Read it at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/audrelorde357292.html.

Right Time, Tell Terrible People, Leslie Caron

“I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.” - Leslie Caron.

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

Comfort, Afflict, Finley Peter Dunne

"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable." - Finley Peter Dunne.

Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/finley_peter_dunne.html

Absurdities, Atrocities, Voltaire

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire

Found in The Sun, May 2017, pg.48, “Sunbeams”

Nation of Sheep, 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.

Life is Very Short, Audre Lorde

"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now." - Audre Lorde

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/audrelorde383487.html.

Strength, Courage, Confidence, Look Fear in the Face, Eleanor Roosevelt

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'" - Eleanor Roosevelt

Found at Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/eleanor_roosevelt_121157.

Defend the Rights, Access to Care, Cecile Richards

“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.

Prejudices, Difficult to Eradicate, Charlotte Bronte

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.” - Charlotte Bronte

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 94.

Lie Habitually, Unconscious, Sleeping Pills, Truth, Adrienne Rich

“To lie habitually, as a way of life, is to lose contact with the unconscious. It is like taking sleeping pills, which confer sleep but blot out dreaming. The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else.” - Adrienne Rich

From The Sun, May 2017, pg.48, “Sunbeams”

Mastectomy, Name Tag, Luncheons and Dinners, Erma Bombeck

“On learning she needed a mastectomy: 'I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, “Now, what shall we name the other one?” That would no longer be a problem.'” - Erma Bombeck

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 73.

Future, Believe, Beauty of Their Dreams, Eleanor Roosevelt

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt

Found at Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/eleanor_roosevelt_100940.

Nineteen Men, Eighteen, Fools, No Doggone Good, Bessie Smith

“There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood:/Eighteen of them are fools/and the one ain't no doggone good.” - Bessie Smith. For the hard-living “Empress of the Blues,” man trouble was her bread and butter.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 183.

Some of Us, Marry, Gloria Steinem

“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.” - Gloria Steinem

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 129.

Happiness, Good Health, Bad Memory, Ingrid Bergman

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” - Ingrid Bergman

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 50.

Woman, Tea Bag, Strong, Hot Water, Eleanor Roosevelt

"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." - Eleanor Roosevelt

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/eleanor_roosevelt_127143.

Born a Woman, Drag Queen, Dolly Parton

“It's a good thing that I was born a woman, or I'd have been a drag queen.” - Dolly Parton, rags-to-riches country music mogul.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 21.

Fight City Hall, Rumor, Audre Lorde

“That you can't fight City Hall is a rumor being circulated by City Hall.” - Audre Lorde

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 91.

Marriage, Human, Klingon, Carol Liefer

“My marriage didn't work out. I was a human being and he was a Klingon.” - Carol Liefer.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 153.

True Measure, Freak Establishment, Needs of Others, Philip K. Dick

“The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.” ― Philip K. Dick

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4764.Philip_K_Dick.

Life is Very Short, Audre Lorde

"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now." - Audre Lorde

Found on Brainy Quotes. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/audre_lorde_383487.

Arrogant Toward Women, Aggressive, Scornful, Virility, Simone De Beauvoir

“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.” - Simone De Beauvoir. To those who took The Second Sex seriously, brainy de Veauvor was Sartre's more significant Other.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 184.

Little Place, Political Scheme, Fighter, Shirley Chisolm

“There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.” - Shirley Chisholm, professor and practitioner of political sciens, and the first black woman to battle her way into Congress.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 52.

We the People, Men Their Rights, Women Their Rights, Susan B. Anthony

"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people -- women as well as men." - Susan B. Anthony, speech after her arrest for voting in the 1872 presidential election

"Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less." - Susan B. Anthony, The Revolution, Jan. 8, 1868

First quote ("It was we, the people...") found at http://www.notable-quotes.com/a/anthony_susan_b.html.

Second quote ("Men, their rights...") found at http://www.notable-quotes.com/a/anthony_susan_b_ii.html.

Successful Woman, Coffee, Stephan Piro

“Behind every successful woman...is a substantial amount of coffee.” - Stephanie Piro

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 16.

Dealing with Social Ills, True Thing, Emma Goldman

“One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; besides, the extreme thing is generally the true thing.” - Emma Goldman. Often arrested for anarchy, “Red Emma” had plenty of solitary time to contemplate the numerous sins of the state.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 51.