What Men Say, What They Do, Andrew Carnegie

“As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” - Andrew Carnegie

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 42.

Life is Very Short, Must Be Done, 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.

Justice, Not be Served, Unaffected, Outraged, Benjamin Franklin

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” ― Benjamin Franklin

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/289513.Benjamin_Franklin.

Food Stamp recipients, Financial Crisis, Wall Street, Barack Obama

"Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did." - Barack Obama

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/barackobam733938.html

People Don't Hear You, Scream, Stephanie Powers

“Unfortunately, sometimes people don't hear you until you scream.” - Stephanie Powers

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 16.

Best Piece of Advice, Accept Everything, Misty Copeland

“The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different. That is what makes me special.” - Misty Copeland

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 56.

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.

Spread the Wealth Around, Barack Obama

"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody." - Barack Obama

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/barack_obama_409183.

Your Imagination, Creativity, Curiosity, Your Place in the World, Mae C. Jemison

"Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." — Mae C. Jemison, first African-American woman astronaut

Found at http://www.beliefnet.com/inspiration/2010/01/inspiring-quotes-from-great-women-in-history.aspx?p=10.

Calendar, On Time, Marilyn Monroe

“I've been on a calendar but never on time.” - Marilyn Monroe

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 123.

Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Backwards, High Heels, Ann Richards

“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.” ― Ann Richards

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/30204-after-all-ginger-rogers-did-everything-that-fred-astaire-did.

Speak to God, About Him, St. Therese of Lisieux

“I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.” - St. Therese of Lisieux, not the type to talk behind the Supreme Being's back.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 113.

Worry, Alzheimer's, Remember, 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.

Write for Those Women, Terrified, Respect Fear, Audre Lorde

"I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't." - Audre Lorde

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/audre_lorde_409007/

Service, Rent, 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.

Too Many Fantasies, Hosewife, Marilyn Monroe

“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife...I guess I am a fantasy.” - Marilyn Monroe.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 27.

Important Moments, Advertised Ones, Door of Memory Unannounced, Susan B. Anthony

"Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these." - Susan B. Anthony, The Ghost in My Life

Found on Notable Quotes at http://www.notable-quotes.com/a/anthony_susan_b.html.

Strong Feelings, Lead Your Life, Ann Richards

“I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.” - Ann Richards

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 41.

Attributing His Problems, Environment, Exercise His Will, Albert Schweitzer

“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility.” - Albert Schweitzer

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 34.

The Moment, How Great You Are, Threat, Cicely Tyson

“The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.” - Cicely Tyson

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 70.

Make Progress, Standing on the Sidelines, Implementing Ideas, Shirley Chisholm

“You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” - Shirley Chisholm

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 78.

You Own Everything, Tell Your Stories, Anne Lamott

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.” ― 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.

Conscious, Ignorant of the Facts, Knowledge, Benjamin Disraeli

"To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge." - Benjamin Disraeli

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/benjamin_disraeli_130754.

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.

Don't Compromise Yourself, Janis Joplin

“Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.” - Janis Joplin

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 34.

Being a Bitch, Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King

“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.” ― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

Found on GoodReads. Read more here.

What I've Lost, What I Have Left, Betty Ford

“I don't look at what I've lost. I look instead at what I have left.” - Betty Ford

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 7.

Bear with Great Philosophy, Sufferings, Do Not Actually See Them, Albion Fellows Bacon

“We can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.” - Albion Fellows Bacon, a rather cynical turn-of-the-century social worker.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 61.

"Because women's work is never done...", Women's Liberation Broadsheet, Brigit Books, 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.

Strong Woman, Ennobled, Scars, Carly Simon

“A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.” - Carly Simon

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 59.

Passion Drives You, Reins, Benjamin Franklin

“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.” - Benjamin Franklin

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 49.