What Feminism Is, Feminist, Express Sentiments, Rebecca West

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute." - Rebecca West, "Mr Chesterton in Hysterics: A Study in Prejudice," The Clarion, 14 Nov 1913, reprinted in The Young Rebecca, 1982

Found at BrainyQuote; can be viewed at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rebeccawes128207.html.

Make More Friends, Interested in Other People, Dale Carnegie

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” - Dale Carnegie

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 99.

Press, Watching Politics, Public Office, Public Capacity, Molly Ivins

“The press went tearing off down a very dangerous and stupid path in '88 when they wrote about Hart's affairs. After twenty-five years of watching politics I have never been able to cite any correlation whatever between who these guys screw and how they perform in public office. The question is who they screw in their public capacity.” - Molly Ivins

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 93.

Laughter, Carbonated Holiness, Anne Lamott

“Laughter is carbonated holiness.” ― Anne Lamott

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

Best Thing, Couple Married for Fifty Years, Grown Nearsighted Together, Linda Fiterman

“The best thing that can happen to a couple married for fifty years or more is that they both grow nearsighted together.” - Linda Fiterman

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 13.

Dreamer, Find His Way by Moonlight, Dawn, Oscar Wilde

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” - Oscar Wilde, author, playwright

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 50.

Sustained Outrage, Authority, Molly Ivins

“What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.” - Molly Ivins

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 50.

Monsters are Real, Ghosts are Real, Stephen King

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

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Win a War, Win an Earthquake, Jeanette Rankin, Non-Violence, Violence, Joan Baez

“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” - Jeanette Rankin

“Non-violence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.” - Joan Baez

Both found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 127.

Truth, Justice, Malcolm X

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against." - Malcolm X

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/malcolm_x_385966.

Weep With Their Whole Heart, Know How to Laugh, Golda Meir

“Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.” - Golda Meir

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 21.

Spread the Wealth, Good for Everybody, Barack Obama

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

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Don't Worry About Tomorrow, Yiddish Folk Saying

“Don't worry about tomorrow; who knows what will befall you today?” - Yiddish folk saying

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 31.

High Destiny, Serve, Albert Einstein

“The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.” - Albert Einstein

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 88.

Stands for Nothing, 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.

Brain, Uterus, Patricia Schroeder

“I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.” - Patricia Schroeder, veteran Colorado congresswoman who coined the term “Teflon-coated presidency,” also known as Mom.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 54.

Certain Age, Aching in Every Joint, Tommy Mein

“After a certain age, if you don't wake up aching in every joint, you are probably dead.” - Tommy Mein

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 80.

Middle Age, Better in the Morning, Laurence J. Peter

“Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.” - Laurence J. Peter

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 9.

Problems, Man-Made, John F. Kennedy

“Our problems are man-made; therefore, they can be solved by man.” - John F. Kennedy

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 28.

Blind with Patriotism, Reality, Wrong is Wrong, Malcom X

"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it." - Malcolm X

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/malcolm_x_390503.

Avoiding Danger, Not Safe, Helen Keller

“Avoiding danger is not safe in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” - Helen Keller

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 4.

Woo Woo, Riding in an Ambulance, Helen Ksypka

“As an eighty-year-old woman, I only hear 'woo, woo' when I'm riding in an ambulance.” - Helen Ksypka

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 15.

Three Types of People, Make it Happen, Watch it Happen, What the Heck Happened, Ray Akins

“There are three types of people in this world: there are those that make it happen; there are those that watch it happen; and then there are those that woke up one day and say 'What the heck happened?' So which one are you?” - Ray Akins, champion high-school football coach, grandfather of Drew Brees, New Orleans Saints' QB

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 42.

Labor Movement, Minimum Wage, Social Security, Middle-Class, Barack Obama

"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label." - Barack Obama

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Whatever Women Do, Twice as Well, Half as Good, Charlotte Whittons

“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” - Charlotte Whittons, mathematically gifted mayor of Ottawa.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 189.

Consent to Creep, Impulse to Soar, Helen Keller

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” - Helen Keller

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

Beautiful is Good, Sappho

“What is beautiful is good,/and who is good will soon be beautiful.” - Sappho

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 43.

Live Simply, Simply Live, Mother Teresa

“Live simply so others may simply live.” - Mother Teresa

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 139.

Youth, Ideal State, Later in Life, Lord Asquith

“Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.” - Lord Asquith

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 1.

No Race Can Prosper, Dignity, Booker T. Washington

“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.” - Booker T. Washington

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 111.

All Great And Honorable Actions, Great Difficulties, Answerable Courage, William Bradford

“All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.” - William Bradford, second governor of Plymouth Colony and author of Of Plymouth Plantation

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 14.