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 Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/franklin_d_roosevelt_163168.

Heart, Rebellious, Patriarchy, Mona Eltahawy

“Make your heart too rebellious for patriarchy to plant itself within you. Make your mind too free for fascism to claim your imagination.” - Mona Eltahawy

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 119.

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.

Hitler, Lied Shamelessly, Convinced Millions, Willingly Sacrificed Them, Madeleine K. Albright

“Hitler lied shamelessly about himself and about his enemies. He convinced millions of men and women that he cared for them deeply when, in fact, he would have willingly sacrificed them all. His murderous ambition, avowed racism, and utter immorality were given the thinnest mask, and yet millions of Germans were drawn to Hitler precisely because he seemed authentic. They screamed, “Sieg Heil” with happiness in their hearts, because they thought they were creating a better world.” ― Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/63111.Madeleine_K_Albright.

Wealthy, Democracy, Voters, Gerrymandered, America Ferrera

"I am most concerned about the wealthy owning our democracy. [It] feels as if very real efforts to disable our democracy are underway. Between the way our rights as voters are being attacked, the way elections themselves are being gerrymandered... I really think that if we don't show up in this moment, we will [have] missed potentially our last opportunity to really check this administration." - America Ferrera, Actress and Political Activist

Found in Parade at https://parade.com/1084647/stephanieosmanski/election-voting-quotes/.

Writer, Read a Lot, Write a Lot, Stephen King

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” ― Stephen King

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

Problem That Needs Solving, Do Something, Hillary Clinton

“If you’ve looked at a problem that needs solving in your community and thought to yourself, ‘Someone should really do something about that!’ I’ve got some news for you: That someone could be you.” - Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on National Run for Office Day, via Twitter.

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

Extreme Texas Judge, Mifepristone, Women, Scientists and Doctors, Sen. Amy Klobuchar

“One extreme Texas Judge decided Mifepristone isn’t safe for women. Seriously? Fact: Scientists and doctors reviewed it for … years and it has been legal and safe for over two decades. This opinion sets a dangerous precedent for our whole healthcare system.” - Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), responding on Twitter to Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling to rescind the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of misfepristone

Found in Ms. Magazine, Summer 2023, page 6.

Honor, Supreme Court Decision, Lambasted, Samuel Alito

“I had the honor this term of writing the only Supreme Court decision in the history of that institution that has been lambasted by a whole string of foreign leaders.” - Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in a winking reference to Dobbs during his keynote address for Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Summit.Found in Ms. Magazine Ms. Magazine, Fall 2022, page 4.

As if that was something to be proud of.

Special Place, Women, Help Other Women, Madeleine Albright

“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women." ― Madeleine Albright (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/63111.Madeleine_K_Albright.

Book, Banned, 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 .

Grandparents, Playlist, Barack Obama

"You wouldn't let your grandparents pick your playlist. Why would you let them pick your representative who's going to determine your future?" Barack Obama, Former U.S. President

Found from Parade at https://parade.com/1084647/stephanieosmanski/election-voting-quotes/.

Destroy, Old Prejudice, New Virtue, Mme. de Stael

“When we destroy an old prejudice we have need of a new virtue.” - Mme. de Stael

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

Any Woman, Intellectual, Write Non-Fiction, Theory, Discrimination, 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.

Landscape Photography, Supreme Test, Ansel Adams

"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment." - Ansel Adams

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ansel_adams_141286.

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.

Feminism, Sentiments, 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.

Food Stamp, Financial Crisis, Wall Street, Barack Obama

"Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did." - Barack Obama

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/barackobam733938.html

Problem, Needs Solving, Someone, You, Hillary Clinton

“If you’ve looked at a problem that needs solving in your community and thought to yourself, ‘Someone should really do something about that!’ I’ve got some news for you: That someone could be you.” - Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on National Run for Office Day, via Twitter.

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

Scariest Moment, Start, Stephen King

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

Found in Goodreads Stephen King quotes section.

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.

Real Love, Real Union, Communion, Bell Hooks

“In real love, real union, or communion there are now rules.” - bell hooks, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Fall 1992

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 97.

Your Task, Love, Barriers, Rumi

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ― Rumi

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

Press, Politics, Public Capacity, Molly Ivins

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

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

Burn Books, 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.

Authentic Work of Art, Argument, Dame Rebecca West

“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.” - Dame Rebecca West

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 33.

Heart Too Rebellious, Patriarchy, Imagination, Mona Eltahawy

“Make your heart too rebellious for patriarchy to plant itself within you. Make your mind too free for fascism to claim your imagination.” - Mona Eltahawy

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 119.

Angry About Things, Work, Toni Morrison

“I get angry about things, then go on and work.” - Toni Morrison

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 84.

We the People, Men, Rights, Women, Susan B. Anthony

"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people -- women as well as men." - Susan B. Anthony, speech after her arrest for voting in the 1872 presidential election

"Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less." - Susan B. Anthony, The Revolution, Jan. 8, 1868

First quote ("It was we, the people...") found at http://www.notable-quotes.com/a/anthony_susan_b.html.

Second quote ("Men, their rights...") found at http://www.notable-quotes.com/a/anthony_susan_b_ii.html.

Courage, Virtues, Maya Angelou

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently." - Maya Angelou

Found in Country Living at https://www.countryliving.com/life/g5054/quotes-about-strength/?slide=18.

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 require 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, Spring 2021, page 6.

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.