Monsters, Ghosts, 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.

Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Interdependence, Bella Abzug

“First we need a Declaration of Independence, then we need a Declaration of Interdependence.” - Bella Abzug

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 43.

Take Sides, Silence Encourages the Tormentor, Elie Wiesel

“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” - Elie Wiesel

Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/elie_wiesel.html.

Middle of Difficulty, Opportunity, Albert Einstein

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” - Albert Einstein

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

Want to Write, Want to Create, Most Sublime Fool, Ray Bradbury

“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.” ― Ray Bradbury

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1630.Ray_Bradbury.

To Write, Inner Voice, Outer World, Believe That Our Thoughts, Gloria Steinem

“To write is to bring an inner voice into the outer world, to believe that our thoughts are worth entering the thinking of others, and to make real what has never existed in quite the same way before. What could be a better path to self-value that that?” - 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 20.

Strength, Deep Silence, Long-Suffering Hearts, Felicia Hemans

“Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.” - Felicia Hemans

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 54.

Something to Eat, A Little Love, Sermon on How to Behave, Billie Holiday

“You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.” - Billie Holiday

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 123.

Finally Learn, Too Old, Ruth Gordon

“When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.” - Ruth Gordon

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 21.

Your Silence, Protect, Audre Lorde

“Your silence will not protect you.” - Audre Lorde

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 157.

Women, Have it All, Doing it All, Gloria Steinem

“Women can't have it all if that means doing it all.” - 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 19.

Ordinary People Wake Up, Elites, Subjection, Courage, Cornel West

“When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.” ― Cornel West, Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6176.Cornel_West.

Take a Risk, Grow Old, Alice Walker

“Take a risk – grow old.” - Alice Walker

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 53.

Failure or a Disappointment, Gotten the Lessons Out of It, Dump It, Colin L. Powell

“Once you have experienced a failure or a disappointment, once you've analyzed it and gotten the lessons out of it – dump it.” - Colin L. Powell, Parade, Aug. 13, 1989.

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 182.

Wrinkles, Badges of Distinction, Maggie Kuhn

“I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction – I've worked hard for them!” - Maggie Kuhn

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 22.

Stinking Odors in the Kitchen, Stop Cooking, Erma Bombeck

“If you want to get rid of stinking odors in the kitchen, stop cooking.” - Erma Bombeck

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 53.

Do Not Wait, Leaders, Person to Person, Mother Teresa

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” - Mother Teresa

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 15.

Love, Romance, Gloria Steinem

“Love is wanting what's best for the other person. Romance is wanting the other person.” - 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 32.

Clever, Change the World, Wise, Changing Myself, Rumi

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ― Rumi

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/875661.Rumi.

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

"Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." - Mary Harris "Mother" Jones. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/motherjone195568.html

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.

Some of Us, Becoming the Men, 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.

Out Raising Hell, Fighting Age, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

“You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.” - Mother Jones

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 1.

Burn Books, Destroy a Culture, Stop Reading, Ray Bradbury

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ― Ray Bradbury

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=✓&q=ray+bradbury&commit=Search.

Voting Booth, Least Powerful, Most Powerful, Equal, Gloria Steinem

“The voting booth is the one place on earth where the least powerful and the most powerful are equal.” - 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 24.

Be Bold, Make a Doozy, Hit the Ball, Billie Jean King

“Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.” - Billie Jean King

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 14.

Forget What You Said, What You Did, Made Them Feel, Maya Angelou

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou

Found on Goodreads. Find more here.

Wheels of Justice, Wally Amos

“The wheels of justice grind slowly, and there's nothing you can do to hurry them.” Wally Amos, founder of Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie Corp., and a new company, Uncle Noname, in Parade Magazine, May 22, 1994

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 5.

Ignorance, Real Thing, Irene Peter

“Ignorance is no excuse – it's the real thing.” - Irene Peter

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 5.

Born with Wings, Crawl, Rumi

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” ― Rumi

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/875661.Rumi.

Mother, Noble Status, Unwed, Welfare, Florynce Kennedy

“Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change why you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?” - Civil rights lawyer Florynce Kennedy, once lionized by the press as “Radicalism's Rudest Mouth” and as a “loud-mouthed middled-aged colored lady” by herself.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 193.