We Are Becoming, Marry, Gloria Steinem

“We are becoming the men we wanted to marry.” ― Gloria Steinem

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/57108.Gloria_Steinem.

Books, Important, Miracle, 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 https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7113.Anne_Lamott.

Freeing Yourself, Claiming Ownership, Toni Morrison

"Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another." - Toni Morrison

Found on Brainy Quote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/toni_morrison_398352.

Gain Strength, Courage, Confidence, Experience, Eleanor Roosevelt

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'" - Eleanor Roosevelt

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/eleanorroo121157.html.

Woman, Man, Fish, Bicycle, Irina Dunn

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” - Irina Dunn

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 129.

Beyond the Fear, Danny Glover

“You have to get beyond the fear.” - Danny Glover, New York Newsday, May 12, 1992

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 78.

Feel Inferior, Without Your Consent, Eleanor Roosevelt

“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 36.

Affirming Human Rights, Women and Girls, Prevent Violence, Bella Abzug

"We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence." - Bella Abzug

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/bellaabzug688098.html

Imagination or Dreaming, Excitement of Possivilities, Form of Planning, Gloria Steinem

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.” ― Gloria Steinem

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/57108.Gloria_Steinem.

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.

Art, Interest My People, Impress Art Critics, Museums, Elizabeth Catlee

“I try to do art that will interest my people. I'm not trying to impress art critics or to do art for museums. People who run museums are millionaires and they have a whole other idea bout art.” - Elizabeth Catlee, in Washington Post, May 5, 1993

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 36.

Simple Philosophy, Empty, Full, Scratch, Alice Roosevelt Longsworth

“I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.” - Alice Roosevelt Longsworth

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 131.

Reality, Illusion, Persistent One, Albert Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/albert_einstein_100298

Beat the Machine, Political Power Structure, Bella Abzug

"I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure." - Bella Abzug

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/bellaabzug688092.html.

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.

Individual Freedom, Economic Security, Independence, Hungry, Out of a Job, Dictatorships, Franklin D. Roosevelt

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/franklin_d_roosevelt_134721.

Women's Work, Never Done, Underpaid, Unpaid, Women's Liberation Movement, 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.

Immersion, Live Untouched, Tillie Olsen

“Better immersion than to live untouched.” - Tillie Olsen, author

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 117.

Get to Heaven, Smoke on her Breath, 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.

No Fool, Gives What He Cannot Keep, Gain, Cannot Lose, Jim Elliot

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/jim_elliot_189244.

Deprive, Right to Vote, Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/franklin_d_roosevelt_403816.

Slavery and Colonialism, Women's Inequality, Unacceptable, Stupid, United Nations Secretary-General Antonia Guterres

“Just as slavery and colonialism were a stain on previous centuries, women’s inequality should shame us all in the 21st. Because it is not only unacceptable; it is stupid.” - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, condemning the patriarchy in a speech on women and power.

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

Empathy, Imagine, Others are Going Through, Enough Courage to 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.

System of Oppression, Institutionalized, Florynce Kennedy

"When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive." - Florynce Kennedy

Found on Brainyquote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/florynce_kennedy_397337.

Work for Somebody Else, Show Up, Rita Warford

“It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.” - Rita Warford

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 16.

Be Critical, Surface, Falsifies Reality, Degrades, Tillie Olsen

“Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.” - Tillie Olsen. After twenty years of transcribing other people's words, the long-suppressed author of Silences finally found her own voice.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 13.

Dominoes, Fall, Connection, Reproductive Rights, LGBTQ Rights, Women's Rights, Interracial Marriage, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel

“The dominoes have started to fall, and they won’t just stop at one. People should see the connection between reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, women’s rights, interracial marriage – these things are all connected legally.” - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, warning that Roe’s demise could lead to the overturning of other Supreme Court precedents.

Found in Ms. Magazine, Fall 2022, page 4.

Girl, Rights, Gun, Ms. Magazine

“As a girl, I just hope that one day I have as many rights as a gun.” - Sign held by an abortion-rights supporter in Kansas

Found in Ms. Magazine, Fall 2022, page 10-11.

Let Suffering Speak, Hear the Truth, Cornel West

“You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth” ― Cornel West

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