Country, Deep Trouble, Serving Others, Question the Powers, Cornel West

“The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.” ― Cornel West

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

Constitution, I the President, We the People, Gloria Steinem

“The Constitution does not begin with 'I, the president.' It begins with 'We, the people.'” - 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 144.

Any Woman, Intellectual, Discrimination, Self-Doubt, Bell Hooks

“Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her way and perhaps even self-doubt because there aren't that many who've gone before you. And I think that the most powerful tool we can have is to be clear about our intent. To know what it is we want to do rather than going into institutions thinking that the institution is going to frame for us.” - Bell Hooks

Found on Inspiring Quotes at https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/1212-bell-hooks.

What Really Matters, Shirley Lord

“What really matters is what you do with what you have.” - Shirley Lord

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 5.

No Sin, Resistance to Change, Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.” - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 48.

Stay Drunk on Writing, Destroy You, Ray Bradbury

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing

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

No Great Things, Small Things, Great Love, Mother Teresa

“We can do no great things – only small things with great love.” - Mother Teresa

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 96.

Single Person, Missing for You, Joan Didion

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.” ― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/238.Joan_Didion.

Lead the People, Love the People, Cornel West

“You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.” ― Cornel West

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

Only Thing Worse, Failing, Not Having Tried, What If, Gloria Steinem

“The only thing worse than failing is not having tried. You will walk around forever thinking, What if?” - 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 75.

Creative Minds, Survive, Bad Training, Anna Freud

“Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.” - Anna Freud

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 4.

What We Do, More Important, What We Say, Believe, Bell Hooks

“What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.” - Bell Hooks

Found on Inspiring Quotes at https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/1212-bell-hooks.

Leave Something Behind, Change Something, Ray Bradbury

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

"It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Found on Goodreads. Click here to see this and other Ray Bradbury quotes.

Be Sure, Like, Love, Gloria Steinem

“Be sure you like who you love.” - 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 30.

If You're Not Confused, Irene Peter

“Today, if you're not confused, you are not thinking clearly.” - Irene Peter

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 48.

Books, Important, Miracle, World After World After World, 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 at Anne Lamott's quote page.

Biggest Disease, Feeling of Being Unwanted, Mother Teresa

“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.” - Mother Teresa

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 97.

True Democracy, Racism, Feminism, Gloria Steinem

“There can be no true democracy with racism or without feminism.” - 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 25.

Do Anything, Mom, Roseanne Barr Arnold

“I know how to do anything – I'm a mom.” - Roseanne Barr Arnold

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 3.

Challenges of Change, Important, Our Own Future, Hillary Rodham Clinton

“The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.” - Hillary Rodham Clinton

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 46.

I'm Single, Born That Way, Mae West

“I'm single because I was born that way.” - Mae West

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 115.

Perfectionism, Voice of the Oppressor, Anne Lamott

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.” ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Found on GoodReads at Anne Lamott's quote page.

Change, Cracks Everything Open, Dorothy Allison

“Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.” ― Dorothy Allison

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5599.Dorothy_Allison.

If You Don't Like, Change It, Marian Wright Edelman

“If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.” - Marian Wright Edelman

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 46.

If You Don't Vote, Gloria Steinem

“If you don't vote, you don't count.” - 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.

Keep a Diary, Keep You, Mae West

“Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you.” - Mae West

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 33.

Smart and Capable, Live in Community, Anna Quindlen

“I learned that women were smart and capable, could live in community together without men, and in fact did not need men much.” - Anna Quindlen, nun-educated essayist, on the feminist fringe benefits of attending parochial school.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 109.

Things Come Apart, Held Together with Lies, Dorothy Allison

“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.” ― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5599.Dorothy_Allison.

Normal, Amazing, Maya Angelou

“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” - Maya Angelou

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 54.

Courage, Fear, Prayers, Dorothy Bernard

“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” - Dorothy Bernard

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 75.

Democracy, Owning Our Bodies, Gloria Steinem

“Democracy begins with owning our bodies. By that measure, women have rarely lived in a democracy.” - 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 23.

Two Kinds of People, Those Who Do the Work, Those Who Take the Credit, Indira Gandhi

“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people – those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.” - Indira Gandhi

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 78.

Life, Lived, Support Yourself, Interesting, Katharine Hepburn

“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.” - Katharine Hepburn

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 22.

Writing, Making Money, Getting Famous, Enriching the Lives, Stephen King

“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Found in Goodreads at Stephen King quotes.

Adventure, Worthwhile, Amelia Earhart

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” - Amelia Earhart

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 38.

Woman, Child, Man, Raising, Gloria Steinem

“If a woman spends a year bearing and nursing a child, why isn't a man responsible for spending half the time plus another year raising a child? Logic is in the eye of the logician.” - 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.

Face, Sunshine, Shadows, Walt Whitman

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.” ― Walt Whitman

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1438.Walt_Whitman.

No Matter the Fight, Ladylike, Mary "Mother" Jones

"No matter the fight, don't be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies." - Militant labor organizer Mary "Mother" Jones, one mean maternal unit to mess with.

(Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, compiled by Autumn Stephens.)

Books, Perfect Entertainment, Stephen King

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.” ― Stephen King

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3389.Stephen_King.

Obey All the Rules, Miss All the Fun, Katharine Hepburn

“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” - Katharine Hepburn

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 87.

Attempts the Absurd, Achieve the Impossible, Robin Morgan

"Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible." - Robin Morgan

Found on AZ Quotes at https://www.azquotes.com/quote/528855.

Nothing is Impossible, Audrey Hepburn

“Nothing is impossible; the word itself says 'I'm possible.'” - Audrey Hepburn

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 11.

Do More, Required, George S. Patton, Jr.

"Always do more than is required of you.” - George S. Patton, Jr.

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 119.

Honest Americans, We Elected Them, Lily Tomlin

“Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.” - Lily Tomlin

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 92.

Real Courage, Man With a Gun, Know You're Licked Before You Begin, Begin Anyway, Atticus Finch, Harper Lee

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." - (Atticus Finch) ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Found on Goodreads, at https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3275794-to-kill-a-mockingbird.

Black Woman Writer, Too Much, Bell Hooks

“No black woman writer in this culture can write 'too much.' Indeed, no woman writer can write 'too much.'...No woman has ever written enough.” - Bell Hooks

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.

Love, Hiding Place, Zora Neale Hurston

"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." - Zora Neale Hurston

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/zora_neale_hurston_106544.

Change Their Party, Principles, Winston Churchill

“Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.” - Winston Churchill

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 6.

Because Women's Work, Never Done, Underpaid, Unpaid, 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.

Army of Gray-Haired Women, Take Over the Earth, Gloria Steinem

“One day, an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the earth.” - 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, page46.

Thinking Alike, Isn't Thinking, George S. Patton, Jr.

“If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.” - George S. Patton, Jr.

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 118.

Rat Race, Still a Rat, Lily Tomlin

“The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.” - Lily Tomlin

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 27.

Sorrow's Kitchen, Mountain Wrapped in Rainbows, Zora Neale Hurston

"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands." - Zora Neale Hurston

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/zora_neale_hurston_399481.

Justice, Love, Cornel West

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.” ― Cornel West

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

Root of Oppression, Loss of Memory, Paula Gunn Allen

“The root of oppression is the loss of memory.” - Paula Gunn Allen

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 120.

No Change, Contemplation, bell hooks

“There is no change without contemplation.” - bell hooks, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (Fall 1992)

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 98.

Women, Only Group, Gloria Steinem

“Women may be the only group that grows more radical with age.” - 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 44.

Endure, Dream, Fail, Survive, Maya Angelou

“We can endure, dream, fail...and still survive.” - Maya Angelou, in Washington Post (Jan. 19, 1993)

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 11.

Getting Older, All the Other Ages, Madeleine L'Engle

“The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.” - Madeleine L'Engle

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

Best Way, Fearlessness, Example, Gloria Steinem

“The best way to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.” - 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 40.

Duty of Our Generation, Solidarity, Elie Wiesel

"This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others." - Elie Wiesel

This can be found at http://www.wisdomquotes.com/authors/elie-wiesel/.

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.

Pleasure, Nothing-to-Lose, Take-No-Shit Older Woman, Gloria Steinem

“I'm beginning to realize the pleasure of being a nothing-to-lose, take-no-shit older woman.” - 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 49.

Reproduce Nature, Less Beauty, Why Paint, Georgia O'Keeffe

“If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty that the original, why paint at all?” - Georgia O'Keeffe

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 32.

Listening, Not Imitation, Flattery, Dr. Joyce Brothers

“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.” - Dr. Joyce Brothers

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 67.

Scariest Moment, Just Before You Start, Stephen King

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Found on Goodreads.

Talent, Never Enough, Hardest Workers, Earvin (Magic) Johnson, My Life

“Talent is never enough. With a few exceptions, the best players are the hardest workers.” - Earvin (Magic) Johnson, My Life (1992)

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 109.

Need, Passengers, Spaceship Earth, Gloria Steinem

“We need each other. We are all passengers on Spaceship Earth.” - 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 13.

Art, Social Responsibility, Show How Life Should Be, Harry Belafonte

“I deeply believe that art has a social responsibility – not only to show how life is, but to show how life should be.” - Harry Belafonte, in New York Daily News, Nov. 26, 1995

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 16.

Sobering Thought, Full Potential, Jane Wagner

“A sobering thought: What if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?” - Jane Wagner

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 1.

One Thing, Majority Rule, Person's Conscience, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.” - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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

Older Women, Inhibited, Afraid to Act, Waste of Human Potential, Frances Lear

“Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential.” - Frances Lear

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 14.

Best Thing, Self-Defense, Self Worth Defending, Gloria Steinem

“The best thing about self-defense is knowing there is a self worth defending.” - 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.

Two Reasons Why People Fail, Irresponsibility, Fear, Wally Amos

“There are two reasons why people fail. One is irresponsibility. The second is fear.” - 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.

Tell the Truth About Yourself, Virginia Woolf

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” - Virginia Woolf

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 56.

Life, Moves, Stop and Look Around, Matthew Broderick, Ferris Bueller's Day Off

“Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around every once in a while, you could miss it.” - Matthew Broderick, Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 29.

Creative Minds, Survive, Bad Training, Anna Freud

“Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.” - Anna Freud

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 4.

Woman, Control Our Lives, Gloria Steinem

“If women can't control our lives from the skin in, we can't control our lives from the skin out.” - 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 36.

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.

Afraid of Faililng, Fall Down, Getting Up, Marian Wright Edelman

“Don't be afraid of failing. It doesn't matter how many times you fall down. All that matters is how many times you keep getting up.” - Marian Wright Edelman, Commencement Address, Howard University, May 12, 1990

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 60.

Sick and Tired, Fannie Lou Hamer

“I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.” - Fannie Lou Hamer

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 92.

Bitch, Thank You, Gloria Steinem

“If they call you a bitch, say 'Thank you!'” - 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 110.

Never Completely Escaped, Scars of My Childhood, Alvin Ailey

“I am a person who has never completely escaped from the scars of my childhood. Racism, which leaves a shadow on one's sense of accomplishment, can make one feel like a perpetual outsider.” - Alvin Ailey, Essence, November 1988

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 4.

Voting, Most We Can Do, It's the Least, Gloria Steinem

“Voting isn't the most we can do, but it's the least.” - 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 21.

Hardest Years, Ten and Seventy, Helen Hayes

“The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.” - Helen Hayes

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 21.

Win, Learn How to Lose, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“You won't win until you learn how to lose. I don't like to do it, but I can stand it. Along with everything else, you have to acquire the ability to accept defeat. No one makes it without stumbling.” - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Special Report: Sports (August-October 1990)

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 3.

Without Community, Liberation, Audre Lorde

“Without community, there is no liberation.” - 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 43.

Intolerant of Ignorance, Educated, Maya Angelou

"[My mother] said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.” - Maya Angelou

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 3.

Stand Before God, Single Bit of Talent Left, Used Everything, Erma Bombeck

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.'” - Erma Bombeck

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 3.

Ignorance, No Excuse, Real Thing, Irene Peter

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

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 90.

People Involved in Any Art, They're Good, They're Lucky, Katharine Hepburn

“I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good – or because they're lucky.” - Katharine Hepburn

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

Empathy, What Others are Going Through, Do Something About It, Cornel West

“Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.” ― Cornel West

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

Feminization of Poverty, Masculinization of Wealth, Gloria Steinem

“The feminization of poverty equals the masculinization of wealth.” - 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 29.

Don't Compromise, Janis Joplin

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

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

Stay Drunk on Writing, Reality, Ray Bradbury

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing

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

Crossing the Street, Andy Rooney

“Crossing the street in New York keeps old people young – if they make it.” - Andy Rooney

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 49.

Pill, Women, Give Birth to Themselves, Gloria Steinem

“When the pill came along, more women were able to give birth to themselves.” - 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 18.

Relationships, Commitment, Loyalty, Love, Patience, Persistence, Cornel West

“We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.” - Cornel West, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life, by bell hooks

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

Books, Perfect Entertainment, Stephen King

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.” ― Stephen King

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3389.Stephen_King.

Living Out the Unlived Lives, Our Mothers, Gloria Steinem

“So many of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers.” - 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 15.

Firm, Obstinate, Pig-Headed Fool, Katherine Whitehorner

“I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.” - attributed to Katherine Whitehorner

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 41.

End of Your Rope, Tie a Know, Hang On, Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Found at Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/franklin_d_roosevelt_101840.

Leave Something Behind, Ray Bradbury

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

"It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Found on Goodreads. Click here to see this and other Ray Bradbury quotes.

Sensitive Listening Skills, Intuition, Gloria Steinem

“If more men gained sensitive listening skills, they would have 'intuition' too.” - 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.

Truest Expression, Dances, Music, Agnes De Mille

“The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.” - Agnes De Mille

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 30.

Question Authority, Timothy Leary

"Think for yourself and question authority." - Timothy Leary

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/timothylea378747.html.

Great Writers, Works, Way of Looking at Things, Elizabeth Janeway

“Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.” - Elizabeth Janeway

Found on Inspiring Quotes at https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/4109-elizabeth-janeway.

Females, Valued, Wombs, Minds and Hearts, Gloria Steinem

“As long as females are valued only for our wombs, we will never be valued for our minds and hearts.” - 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 15.

Take Your Work Seriously, Dame Margo Fonteyn

“Take your work seriously, but never yourself.” - Dame Margot Fonteyn

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 38.

Whoever is Happy, Make Others Happy, Anne Frank

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

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

Remember the Ladies, Generous and Favorable, Tyrants, Rebellion, Abigail Adams

“Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by an Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.” - Abigail Adams, wife of the second president of the United States of America.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 47.

Test of Our Progress, Abundance, Little, 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.

Growing Old, Alternative, Lois L. Kaufman

“Growing old isn't so bad if you consider the alternative.” - Lois L. Kaufman

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 69.

Keep on Doin', Keep on Gettin', Barbara Lyons

“If we keep on doin' what we always done, we'll keep on gettin' what we always got.” - Barbara Lyons

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 48.

Double Bind, Expected to Feel Inferior, Women, Old, Elizabeth Janeway

“We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.” - Elizabeth Janeway

Found on Inspiring Quotes at https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/4109-elizabeth-janeway.

Nomad Follows the Seasons, Followed a Movement, Found My Family, Gloria Steinem

“A nomad follows the seasons and the animals, taking family along. I followed a movement and found my family.” - Glorida 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 10.

Afford a Big House, Energy to Clean It, Denise Tiffany

“Now that I can afford a big house, I don't have the energy to clean it.” - Denise Tiffany

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 43.

Life, Change, Growth, Optional, Choose Wisely, Karen Kaiser Clark

“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” - Karen Kaiser Clark

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 46.

How Many Candles, Young, Strong, and Handsome, Susan D. Anderson

“Remember, no matter how many candles you blow out this year, there's one gal who will always think of you as young, strong, and handsome – your mother.” - Susan D. Anderson

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 47.

Revolutions, Trees, Gloria Steinem

“Revolutions, like trees, grow from the bottom up.” - 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 8.

Get Busy Living, Get Busy Dying, Stephen King

“Get busy living or get busy dying.” ― Stephen King, Different Seasons

Found on GoodReads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3389.Stephen_King.

Long Way, Short Way, Calling Us Baby, Elizabeth Janeway

“We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.” - Elizabeth Janeway

Found on Inspiring Quotes at https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/4109-elizabeth-janeway.

Husband, Woman, Paintings, Pablo Picasso, Jacqueline Rogue

“If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.” (speaking of Pablo Picasso) – Jacqueline Rogue

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

Book, Banned, Indefensible, Rebecca West

"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide." - Rebecca West

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/rebecca_west_137977 .

Want a Thing Well Done, Old Broads, Bette Davis

“If you want a thing well done, get a couple of old broads to do it.” - Bette Davis

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 20.

Avoiding Danger, Fearful, Bold, 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.

Hate, Acid, Damage, Ann Landers

“Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is store as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.” - Ann Landers

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 40.

In-Person Requirements, Mifepristone, Pandemic, Empathy for Women, Sonia Sotomayor

“Maintaining the FDA's in-person requirements for mifepristone during the pandemic not only treats abortion exceptionally, it imposes an unnecessary, irrational and unjustifiable undue burden on women seeking to exercise their right to choose. One can only hope that the Government will reconsider and exhibit great care and empathy for women.” - Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissenting to the majority's ruling that the Food and Drug Administration may prevent women from receiving abortion pills by mail.

Found in Ms. Magazine, Spring 2021 issue, page 6.

No Sin, Attempt and Fail, SuEllen Fried

“It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt.” - SuEllen Fried

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 13.

Trouble About Man, Learn Truths, Forgets Truths, Rebecca West

"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple." - Rebecca West

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/rebecca_west_108172.

Age, My Back, Phyllis Diller

“I'm at an age where my back goes out more than I do.” - Phyllis Diller

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

Women, Vote, Own Self Interest, Michelle Williams

“Women...when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self interest. It's what men have been doing for years, which is why the world looks so much like them. But don't forget that we are the largest voting body in this county. Let's make it look more like us.” - Actor Michelle Williams, accepting a Golden Globe for her starring role in Fosse/Verdon with an impassioned speech in support of abortion rights

Found in Ms. Magazine, Winter 2020, page 6.

Consent, 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.

Age, Protect, Love, Jeanne Moreau

“Age doesn't protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” - Jeanne Moreau

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 23.

Music, Missed Its Point, Maria Callas

“When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point.” - Maria Callas

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 29.

Equal Rights Amendment, Justice Antonin Scalia, Constitution, Nancy Pelosi

“There are some who say the Equal Rights Amendment is not needed. To them, I quote the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who said, 'Certainly the Constitution does not requiter discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It does not.'” - Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), speaking on the House floor in support of a joint resolution to remove the timeline on ERA ratification.

Found in Ms. Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Spring 2021 issue, page 6.

Writing, Communication, Rebecca West

"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind." - Rebecca West

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/rebecca_west_162289.

Perfectionism, Voice of the Oppressor, First Draft, Anne Lamott

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.” ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Found on GoodReads at Anne Lamott's quote page.

Glass Ceiling, More Pliable, Pauline R. Kezer

“The glass ceiling gets more pliable when you turn up the heat!” - Pauline R. Kezer

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 14.

Democracy, Diverse Nation, Atticus Finch, Barack Obama

"...If our democracy is to work the way it should in this increasingly diverse nation, then each one of us need to try to heed the advice of a great character in American fiction, Atticus Finch, who said 'You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.'

"For blacks and other minority groups, that means tying our own very real struggles for justice to the challenges that a lot of people in this country face. Not only the refugee or the immigrant or the rural poor or the transgender American, but also the middle-aged white guy who from the outside may seem like he’s got all the advantages, but has seen his world upended by economic, and cultural, and technological change.

"We have to pay attention and listen.

"For white Americans, it means acknowledging that the effects of slavery and Jim Crow didn’t suddenly vanish in the ’60s; that when minority groups voice discontent, they’re not just engaging in reverse racism or practicing political correctness; when they wage peaceful protest, they’re not demanding special treatment, but the equal treatment that our founders promised.

"For native-born Americans, it means reminding ourselves that the stereotypes about immigrants today were said, almost word for word, about the Irish, and Italians, and Poles, who it was said were going to destroy the fundamental character of America. And as it turned out, America wasn’t weakened by the presence of these newcomers; these newcomers embraced this nation’s creed, and this nation was strengthened.

"So regardless of the station we occupy; we all have to try harder; we all have to start with the premise that each of our fellow citizens loves this country just as much as we do; that they value hard work and family just like we do; that their children are just as curious and hopeful and worthy of love as our own." - President Barack Obama, January 10, 2017, part of farewell speech

Too Angry, Keep Your Mouth Shut, Your Story, Michelle Obama

“Don't ever, ever let anyone tell you that you're too angry, or that you 'should keep your mouth shut.' There will always be those who want to keep you silent, to have you be seen but not heard, or maybe they don't even want to see you at all. But those people don't know your story, and if you listen to them, then nothing will ever change.” - Former First Lady Michelle Obama, speaking to the graduating class of 2020.

Found in Ms. Magazine, Fall 2020 issue, page 6.

Millions, Immortality, Rainy Afternoon, Susan Ertz

“Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon.” - Susan Ertz

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 9.

Life, Infinitely Happier, Born at the Age of Eighty, Mark Twain

“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.” - Mark Twain

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

God Made Man, I Can Do Better, Adela Rogers St. Johns

“God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.” - Adela Rogers St. Johns

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 128.

What Feminism Is, Feminist, Doormat, 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 doormat." - Rebecca West

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/rebecca_west_105140.

Art, Rebellion, Unfulfilled Desire, Emma Goldman

“Art is part of a rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.” - Emma Goldman

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 30.

Hold Each Other Accountable, Racism and Discrimination, Progress of Our Ancestors, Dayonna Carson

“We need to hold each other accountable for standing up against racism and discrimination of any kind. We must not let the progress of our ancestors have been in vain.” - High school senior Dayonna Carson during her valedictorian speech at Central High School in Chattanooga, Tenn.; the school's administrators turned off her mic as she finished her speech with “No justice, no peace”

Found in Ms. Magazine, Fall 2020 issue, page 6.

Why Torture Yourself, Life, Laura Walker

“Why torture yourself when life will do it for you?” - Laura Walker

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 36.

Cautious Careful People, Reputations, Reform, Susan B. Anthony

“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations...can never effect a reform.” - Susan B. Anthony

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 11.

Suppose, An Idiot, Member of Congress, Mark Twain

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." - Mark Twain

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/mark_twain_161288.

World, Dangerous Place, 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

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.

So Old, Bartenders, Pulse, Louise Bowie

“I'm so old that bartenders check my pulse instead of my ID.” - Louise Bowie

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 92.

Moods, Accomplish Nothing, Pearl S. Buck

“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.” - Pearl S. Buck

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 12.

Facts First, Distort Them, Mark Twain

"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please." - Mark Twain

Found at Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/marktwain122862.html.

Shake Hands, Clench Fist, Indira Gandhi

“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” - Indira Gandhi

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 39.

In Youth, In Age, Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

“In youth we learn; in age we understand.” - Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 20.

Getting Old, Candles, Cake, Bob Hope

“You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” - Bob Hope

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 66.

Advice, Women's Clubs, Raise More Hell, James McNeill Whistler

"My advice to the women's clubs of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias." - James McNeill Whistler

Found at https://quote.biz/list/quotes-by-james-mcneill-whistler.

What Really Matters, Shirley Lord

“What really matters is what you do with what you have.” - Shirley Lord

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

In Truth, Shape the Future, Gloria Steinen

“In truth, we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.” - Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

Found in Ms. Magazine, Fall 2020, page 2.

When I Was Younger, Aging, Memory, Whether it Happened, Mark Twain

“When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.” - Mark Twain

Can be found at Goodreads or by clicking here.

Vote, Most Powerful Nonviolent Change Agent, Late Rep. John Lewis

“The vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society.” - The late Rep. John Lewis

Found on page 1, Ms. Magazine, Fall 2020.

Justice, Love, Public, Cornel West

“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.” ― Cornel West

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

Helping the Elderly, Old Myself Someday, Lillian Carter

“Sure, I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.” (spoken when she was in her eighties) – Lillian Carter

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 20.

Old Age, Didn't Even See it Coming, Phyllis Diller

“I don't know how you feel about old age, but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.” - Phyllis Diller

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 58.

Do Something, Somebody, Lily Tomlin

“I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized that I was somebody.” - Lily Tomlin

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 68.

Old Age, Sissies, Bette Davis

“Old age is no place for sissies.” - Bette Davis

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 17.

Ruthless, Joe McCarthy, Put You on Hold, Marlo Thomas

“A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.” - Marlo Thomas

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press (editor), page 108.

Women Are Foolish, Match the Men, George Eliot

“I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.” - George Eliot

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 110.

Science, Cure, Most Evils, Apathy, Helen Keller

“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.” - Helen Keller

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 13.

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.

Age, Totally Unimportant, Years, Irrelevant, How You Cope, Shirley Lord

“Age is totally unimportant. The years are really irrelevant. It's how you cope with them.” - Shirley Lord

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 23.

Action, Antidote, Despair, Joan Baez

“Action is the antidote to despair.” - Joan Baez

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 20.

Ordinary People Wake Up, Elites Begin to Tremble, Abuse, Subjection, Subjugation, Exploitation, 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.

Talk, Cook Rice, Chinese Proverb

“Talk doesn't cook rice.” - Chinese proverb

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 16.

Important, Women, Official Power, Oppression, Dolores Huerta

“We know how important it is for women to take official power. The oppression of women takes so many forms, and the only way to overcome is by taking power.” - Activist Dolores Huerta, accepting the Young Elected Officials Network's inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award.

Found in Ms. Magazine, page 6, Spring 2019

Burn Books, Destroy a Culture, 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.

Live For, Make Life Less Difficult, George Eliot

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?” - George Eliot

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 41.

Four Stages of Man, Art Linkletter

“The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.” - Art Linkletter

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 46.

Only One, Cannot Do Everything, Can Do Something, Helen Keller

“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.” - Helen Keller

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

Good Judement, Experience, Bad Judgment, Barry LaPatner

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” - Barry LaPatner

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 41.

Marched Many Thousands of Miles, We Can Do This, Si Se Puede, Dolores Hureta

"We've already marched many thousands of miles in our struggle for human rights and social justice, and tomorrow we march again. We must do this. We can do this. Si se puede!" - Dolores Huerta, Co-Founder, United Farm Workers, in the Special Elections 2016 issue of Ms. Magazine.

No Such Thing, Burning Desire, Do the Impossible, Jan Ashford

“There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.” - Jan Ashford

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 11.

Once You're Over the Hill, Pick Up Speed, Charles Schultz

“Just remember, once you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.” - Charles Schultz

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 63.

Stupidity, Retrospect, Missed Chances, Stephen King

“...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.” - Stephen King

Found on https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/506731-stupidity-is-one-of-the-two-things-we-see-most.

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.

Give Up Essential Liberty, A Little Temporary Safety, Benjamin Franklin

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

Found on Brainy Quote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/benjamin_franklin_136955.

Because Women's Work, Never Done, Underpaid or Unpaid, Boring, Repetitious, Joyce Stevens, Brigit Books

"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.

Aging, Way-One Street, Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

“Aging is a one-way street with no stop lights.” - Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 57.

Pause to Wonder, Good as Dead, Albert Einstein

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” - Albert Einstein

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 89.

Strength, Break a Chocolate Bar, Judith Viorst

"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces." - Judith Viorst

Found on Brainy Quote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/judith_viorst_390004.

True Measure of a Man, Treats Someone, Samuel Johnson

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson

Found on Brainy Quote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/samuel_johnson_103605.

Old Enough to Know Better, George Burns

“If you're old enough to know better, you're too old to do it.” - George Burns

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 43.

Best Protection, Courage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"The best protection any woman can have...is courage." — Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American abolitionist

Found at Beliefnet. View this online at http://www.beliefnet.com/inspiration/2010/01/inspiring-quotes-from-great-women-in-history.aspx?p=17.

Fundamental, Government, Gloria Steinem

"There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children." - Gloria Steinem

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/gloria_steinem_690699.

Middle Age, Old Age, Offer her Seat, Bruce Lansky

“Middle age is when a woman on a train gets up to offer her seat to you. Old age is when the woman who gets up to offer you her seat is pregnant.” - Bruce Lansky

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 44.

Nation of Sheep, Defend Freedom, 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.

Rules, Good Photographs, Ansel Adams

"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs." - Ansel Adams

Found on Brainy Quote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ansel_adams_107202.

Living Legend, Dead Legend, George Burns

“Being a living legend is better than being a dead legend.” - George Burns

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 38.

Women, Slaves, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.” - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the strapping spokeswoman for nineteenth-century suffragists.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 12.

The Future, Linda Moakes

“The future isn't what it used to be.” - Linda Moakes

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 38.

Nothing, Complete Wrong, Stopped Clock, Paulo Coelho

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.” ― Paulo Coelho, Brida

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/566.Paulo_Coelho.

Toward the Sunshine, Shadows, Walt Whitman

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.” ― Walt Whitman

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1438.Walt_Whitman.

Experience, Mistakes, Oscar Wilde

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” - Oscar Wilde

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 41.

The Future, One Day at a Time, Abraham Lincoln

“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.” - Abraham Lincoln

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 24.

Will Not Equivocate, William Lloyd Garrison

“I will not equivocate, I will not excuse.” - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist, journalist, social reformer

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 40.

Old People, Health Foods, Preservatives, Robert Orben

“Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.” - Robert Orben

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 77.

Measure of Society, Treat Their Weakest, Jimmy Carter

"The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens." - Jimmy Carter

Found on A-Z Quotes at http://www.azquotes.com/quote/557101.

This can also be applied to children currently being separated from their immigrant parents.

Secret to Staying Young, Lie About Your Age, Lucille Ball

“The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” - Lucille Ball

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 50.

Words Become Unclear, Focus with Photographs, Ansel Adams

"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." - Ansel Adams

Found on Brainy Quote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ansel_adams_107204.

Secret of Life, Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight Times, Paulo Coelho

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/566.Paulo_Coelho.

Scariest Moment, Just Before You Start, Stephen King

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Found on Goodreads.

New Lease on Life, Raises the Rent, Ashleigh Brilliant

“Every time I try to take out a new lease on life, the landlord raises the rent.” - Ashleigh Brilliant

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 28.

Reach Any Understanding, Learn to Stand Alone, Henrik Ibsen

“If I'm ever to reach any understanding of myself and the things around me, I must learn to stand alone.” - Henrik Ibsen, from his play, A Doll's House

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 16.

Want to Write, Most Sublime Fool, Write Every Single Day, 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.

Old Age, Underwear, Creeps Up, Lois L. Kaufman

“Old age is like underwear; it creeps up on you.” - Lois L. Kaufman

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 71.

Horrifying, Fight Our Own Government, Save the Environment, Ansel Adams

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment." - Ansel Adams

Found on Brainy Quote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ansel_adams_161651.

Hundreds of People of African Ancestry, Trail of Tears, Cherokee, Wilma Mankiller

“It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the forced removal of 1838-1839. Although we know about the terrible human suffering of our native people and the members of other tribes during the removal, we rarely hear of those black people who also suffered.” - Wilma Mankiller

Found on Inspiring Quotes at https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/7249-wilma-mankiller.

Strong Men, Role Models, Powerful, Michelle Obama

“Because let's be very clear, strong men, men who are truly role models, don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful.” - First lady Michelle Obama, campaigning for Clinton in October after the release of Donald Trump's Access Hollywood video.

From Ms Magazine: Winter 2016, page 6.

Three Ages of Man, Francis Joselp, Cardinal Spellman

“You've heard of the three ages of man – youth, age, and 'you're looking wonderful.'” - Francis Joselp, Cardinal Spellman

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 46.

A Lot Worse, Worse, Lily Tomlin

“Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.” - Lily Tomlin

From Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, Edited by Roz Warren, page 20.

Cups, Being Filled, Tip Ourselves Over, Ray Bradbury

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.” ― Ray Bradbury

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

Old Age, Plane, Storm, Golda Meir

“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there is nothing you can do.” - Golda Meir

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 71.

Argue With a Fool, Who is the Fool, Who is Not, Wilma Mankiller

“If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.” - Wilma Mankiller

Found on Inspiring Quotes at https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/7249-wilma-mankiller.

Fightin' For Freedom and Justice, Have Fun Doin' It, Molly Ivins

“So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.” - Molly Ivins

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 34.

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.

Make the Mistake, Seventy, Casey Stengel

“I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.” - Casey Stengel

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 68.

Life, Never Fair, Good Thing, Oscar Wilde

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” - Oscar Wilde

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 35.

One Thing, People Were Afraid, Caricature, Michelle Obama

"The one thing they knew people were afraid of was the strength of a black woman. So they turned that into a caricature." - former First Lady Michelle Obama at the Essence Festival in New Orleans in Juyl, reflecting on the attacks she faced when her husband was in office.

From Ms. Magazine, Fall 2019 issue, page 6.

Drunk of Writing, Reality, Ray Bradbury

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing

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

Iroquois Society, Remember Seven Generations, Consider Seven Generations, Wilma Mankiller

“In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.” - Wilma Mankiller

Found on Inspiring Quotes at https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/7249-wilma-mankiller.

Rat Race, Still a Rat, Lily Tomlin

“The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.” - Lily Tomlin

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 27.

Satisfied, Stories, Unfold Your Own Myth, Rumi

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

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

Without Friends, All Other Goods, Aristotle

“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” - Aristotle

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 66.

When We Were Young, It's True, Susan D. Anderson

“When we were young, you made me blush,/go hot and cold, and turn to mush./I still feel all these things, it's true.../but is it menopause, or you?” - Susan D. Anderson

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 21.

Lessons, Stay True to Yourself, Michelle Obama

“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.” - Michelle Obama

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, pages 22 – 23.

Yesterday, Clever, Change the World, Today, 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.

Getting Older, Get Old, George Burns

“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.” - George Burns

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 49.

Stupidity, Retrospect, Missed Chances, Stephen King

“...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.” - Stephen King

Found on https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/506731-stupidity-is-one-of-the-two-things-we-see-most.

Sorrow's Kitchen, Mountain Wrapped in Rainbows, Zora Neale Hurston

"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands." - Zora Neale Hurston

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/zora_neale_hurston_399481.

Rest of My Life, Improve, Ashleigh Brilliant

“I have the rest of my life to improve, but it may take longer than that.” - Ashleigh Brilliant

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 28.

Fight a Battle, Win It, Margaret Thatcher

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” - Margaret Thatcher

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 75.

Angry, Keep Your Mouth Shut, Nothing Will Ever Change, Michelle Obama

"Don't ever, ever let anyone tell you that you're too angry, or that you 'should keep your mourth shut.' There will always be those who want to keep you silent, to have you be seen but not heard, or maybe they don't even want to see you at all. But those people don't know your story, and if you listen to them, then nothing will ever change." - Former First Lady Michelle Obama, speaking to the graduating class of 2020

Found in Ms. Magazine, Fall 2020, page 6.