Monsters, Ghosts, They Win, Stephen King

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

Found on GoodReads. Can be viewed here.

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.

Jokes, Watch the Government, Report the Facts, Will Rogers

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." - Will Rogers

Found at Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/willrogers100045.html.

Books, Important, World After World, Live and Die, Anne Lamott

“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.” ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Found on GoodReads. Read more at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7113.Anne_Lamott.

Fiction, Reality, Tom Clancy

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/tom_clancy.html.

Risk Assessment, Drink That Water, Breathe That Air, Winona LaDuke

“You can change the terms, you can change the allowable limits, you can do the risk assessment – all these things – but in the end, the fact is that you and I drink that water. You and I breathe that air. You and I live here.” - Winona LaDuke

Found in The Sun, July 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”

Alzheimer's, AIDS, Can't Remember Why, Anita Milner

“I'm starting to worry more about getting Alzheimer's than AIDS...but for the life of me, I can't remember why.” - Anita Milner

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 55.

Biggest Sin, Sitting, Florynce Kennedy

“The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.” - 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.

I am America, Muhammad Ali

“I am America. I am the part you won't recognize, but get used to me. Black, confident, cocky. My name, not yours. My religion, not yours. My goals, my own. Ge used to me.” - Muhammad Ali

Found in The Sun, June 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”

Vegetarian Family, Restaurant, Soy Vey, Margo Black

“I'm a Jewish girl who was raised in a vegetarian family. My dream is to open a restaurant called 'Soy Vey.'” - Margo Black

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 42.

Taxes, Honours, Commands, Statecraft, Hortensia

“Why should we pay taxes when we have no part in the honours, the commands, the statecraft, for which you contend against each other with such harmful results?” - Irate orator Hortensia, circa 50 BC. Headstrong H got her toga in a tangle when Roman leaders extracted a tax from females only...to fund a civil war.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 65.

Good Books, Secrets, Stephen King

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.” ― Stephen King

Found on Goodreads. Read that and more here.

History, Fight Nature to Survive, Protect It, Jacques Cousteau

“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.” - Jacques Cousteau

Found in The Sun, July 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”

Older I Get, Greater Power, Snowball, Gain, Susan B. Anthony

“The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.” - 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.

Dangerous Place, Evil, Don't Do Anything, Albert Einstein

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein.

Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/alberteins143096.html

Found Wisdom, Being a Fool, Erica Jong

“No one has ever found wisdom without also being a fool.” - Erotic novelist Erica Jong, a fearless frequent flyer.

Of course, not every fool finds wisdom...

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 78.

Photograph, Secret, Never Been, Diane Arbus

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” - Photographer Diane Arbus

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.” - Photographer Diane Arbus

“My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.” - Photographer Diane Arbus, whose penchant for peculiar-looking posers led her down some rather unusual paths.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 162.

Lying, Leaving Out, Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

“And this wasn't lying, not really. It was leaving out.” - Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

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

Guns, Constitutional Amendment, Women, Eleanor Smeal

“Just think – guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't.” - Hotshot Eleanor Smeal, president of NOW from 1977 to 1987.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 71.

Don't 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.

Affirming Human Rights, Women and Girls, Prevent Violence, Bella Abzug

"We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence." - Bella Abzug

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/bellaabzug688098.html

Failure, Impossible, Susan B. Anthony

“Failure is impossible.” - 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.

Test of Our Progress, Abundance, Provide Enough, Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Found on . Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/franklin_d_roosevelt_163168.

Nothing Changes, Gender Equation, Women's Economic Freedom, Gloria Steinem

"Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom." - Gloria Steinem

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/gloria_steinem_690741.

South, Laws, Disenfranchised, Discriminated, Michelle Alexander

“By the turn of the twentieth century, every state in the South had laws on the books that disenfranchised blacks and discriminated against them in virtually every sphere of life, lending action to a racial ostracism that extended to schools, churches, housing, jobs, restrooms, hotels, restaurants, hospitals, orphanages, prisons, funeral homes, morgues, and cemeteries. Politicians competed with each other by proposing and passing ever more stringent, oppressive, and downright ridiculous legislation (such as laws specifically prohibiting blacks and whites from playing chess together).” - Michelle Alexander

Found in The Sun, June 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”.

With any luck - and a whole lot of people deciding to vote, instead of sitting back to watch democracy - this will not happen again. Some "retro" things should not return.

Blame Anyone, Never Blame Yourself, If You Wanted to Change, Katharine Hepburn

“...We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – you can blame anyone, but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's ALWAYS your fault, because if you wanted to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?” - Katharine Hepburn

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

Stands for Nothing, Fall for Anything, Malcolm X

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything." - Malcolm X

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/malcolm_x_379121.

Women, Produced Anything of Value, Chief Product of the Women, Men, Value, Anna Shaw

“A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, 'Women have never produced anything of any value to the world.' I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.” - Anna Shaw, the mouthiest minister this side of the Mississippi (or, for that matter, the other one).

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 60.

What We Need, Not Division, Not Hatred, Not Violence, Lawlessness, But Love, Wisdom, Robert F. Kennedy

“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.” - Robert F. Kennedy

Found in The Sun, June 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”.

Concentration of Wealth, Concentration of Political Power, Noam Chomsky

"Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle." - Noam Chomsky

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/noam_chomsky_635835.

Heard the Word 'Wait', Familiarity, Never, Martin Luther King Jr.

“For years now I have heard the word 'Wait!' It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This 'Wait' has almost always meant 'Never.'”- Martin Luther King Jr.

From The Sun, June 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”