Gender, Masculine, Feminine, Gloria Steinem

“Gender has wrongly told us that some things are masculine and some things are feminine...which is bullshit.” - 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 27.

End of Your Rope, Tie a Knot, 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.

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.

Impossible to Repent of Love, Muriel Spark

“It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.” - Muriel Spark. The author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie converted to Catholicism, but refused to censor her heart.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 121.

Women, Learn How To Talk, Men, Learn How to Listen, Gloria Steinem

“Women have to learn how to talk as much as we listen. Men have to learn how to listen as much as they talk.” - 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 27.

Educated In Mind, Not Morals, Menace to Society, Juanita Kidd Stout

“A person educated in mind and not morals is a menace to society.” - Juanita Kidd Stout

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 87.

A Cock, Hear Him Crow, George Eliot

“He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.” - George Eliot

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 38.

Twelve Significant Photographs, Good Crop, Ansel Adams

"Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop." - Ansel Adams

Found on Brainy Quote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ansel_adams_141288.

Good Communication, Stimulating, Black Coffee, Anne Morrow Linbergh

“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.” - Anne Morrow Linbergh

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 82.

Good Judgment, Experience, Bad Judgment, Will Rogers

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers

Found on Brainy Quote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/will_rogers_411692.

Where It Would Lead, Had to Be Done, Betty Friedan

“We couldn't possibly know where it would lead, but we knew it had to be done.” - Faith-full Betty Friedan, the big mama who blew the whistle on the feminine mystique.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 68.

Broadway, Good to Me, Ethel Merman

“Broadway has been very good to me – but then I've been very good to Broadway.” - Ethel Merman

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 32.

Oppressors Always Expect, Understanding, Audre Lorde

“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.” - Audre Lorde, Black Scholar, May – June 1979.

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 141.

Sharp Image, Fuzzy Concept, Ansel Adams

"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." - Ansel Adams

Found on Brainy Quote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ansel_adams_106035.

Doctor, Office Plants, Erma Bombeck

“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.” - Erma Bombeck

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 50.

Woman Must Not Accept, Challenge, Struggles for expression, Margaret Sanger

"Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression." — Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood

Found on Brainyquote.com, at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/margaret_sanger.html.

Feed on Bitterness, Nitpick, James Earl Jones

“If you feed on bitterness you can nitpick all the way to your death.” - James Earl Jones, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 1, 1990.

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 112.

Don't Give Up, Love and Inspiration, Ella Fitzgerald

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." — Ella Fitzgerald, African-American Jazz singer

Found on Beliefnet.com at http://www.beliefnet.com/inspiration/2010/01/inspiring-quotes-from-great-women-in-history.aspx?p=12.

Cats Aren't Happy, Mood, Ways to Get Even, Penny Ward Moser

“When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.” - Penny Ward Moser

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 8.

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

“The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.” - Susan B. Anthony, the formidable founding mother of 19th-century American feminism.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 66.

Children After Thirty-Five, Gracie Allen

“A woman came to ask the doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said thirty-five is enough for any woman!” - Gracie Allen

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 85.

Fool Some of the People, Can't Fool Yourself, Maya Angelou

“I found out that you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool yourself.” - Maya Angelou, in Conversations with Maya Angelou, 1989.

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 10.

Understand a Person, Point of View, Atticus Finch, Harper Lee

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” (Atticus Finch) ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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

Television, Look at Anything, Ann Landers

“Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.” - Ann Landers

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 69.

Goes to Heaven, Leave my Breath Behind, Sojourner Truth

“To someone who commented that she couldn't get to heaven with smoke on her breath: 'Yes, child, but when I goes to heaven I expect to leave my breath behind.'” - Sojourner Truth

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

Hear, Forget, See, Remember, Do, Understand, Chinese Proverb

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” - Chinese proverb

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 88.

Creative Potential, Image of God, Mary Daly

“It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.” - Mary Daly

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

Character Building, Eleanor Roosevelt

“Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 55.

How Great You Are, Threat, Cicely Tyson

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

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

Conditions of Tyranny, Act, Hannah Arendt

“Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.” - Hannah Arendt, left-wing philosopher who promoted the radical notion that morality might have a place in politics.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 63.

Any Rights, Just Take Them, Sojourner Truth

“If women want any rights more than they have, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.” - Abolitionist orator Sojourner Truth. Seize the day, ladies – or shut the hell up!

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 72.