No Woman, Free, Control, Margaret Sanger

“No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.” - Margaret Sanger

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 47.

Peace, God's Gift, Each Other, Elie Wiesel

"Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other." - Elie Wiesel

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/eliewiesel112799.html.

Keep Fightin', Freedom and Justice, Have Fun, 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.

Important Moments, Advertised Ones, Real Milestones, Susan B. Anthony

"Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these." - Susan B. Anthony, The Ghost in My Life

Found on Notable Quotes at http://www.notable-quotes.com/a/anthony_susan_b.html.

When I Was Born, Couldn't Talk, Gracie Allen

“When I was born, I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and a half.” - Gracie Allen

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 96.

Date, Man, Weekends, Rita Rudner

“Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?” - Stand-up comic Rita Rudner, a person who likes to look at the big picture.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 192.

Girl, Rights, Sign, 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.

Our Obligation, Meaning to Life, Elie Wiesel

"Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life." - Elie Wiesel

Found at Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/eliewiesel386793.html.

Human Relationship, Motherhood, Instantly Interruptible, Tillie Olsen, Silence

“More than in any human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible. It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity.” ― Tillie Olsen, Silences

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/89863.Tillie_Olsen.

Not the Time, Feminists, Sidelines, Call to Action, Eleanor Smeal, Kathy Spillar

"This is not the time for feminists to sit on the sidelines. We must fight on. We have come too far and worked too hard to go back now.

"This is a call to action. If you have the ability, desire and drive to volunteer for your favorite feminist cause or organization, the time to do so is now. Clinics need escorts; nonprofits need volunteer researchers, event organizers, administrators, lawyers, artists, designers, computer techies and fundraisers. Everyone and every skill count. We all need your passion, encouragement, skills, commitment, financial support—big or small." Eleanor Smeal, Kathy Spillar, Ms. Magazine, from the special election issue's and blog's "This is a Call to Action".

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

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

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

Get in Touch, Communicative, Molly Ivins

“They kept telling us we had to get in touch with our bodies. Mine isn't all that communicative but I heard from it on Tuesday morning when I genially proposed, 'Body, how'd you like to go to the nine o'clock class in vigorous toning with resistance?' Clear as a bell my body said, 'Listen, bitch, do it and you die.'” - Molly Ivins

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

We The People, White Male Citizens, Whole 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.

Anti-Feminist Institutions, Church, Law Court, Dresses, Flo Kennedy

“It is interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing dresses.” - Flo Kennedy

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 36.

Applying Pressure, Government, Do Nothing, Despair, Resignation, Elie Wiesel

"It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is not an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment." - Elie Wiesel

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

Only One, 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.

Ordinary People, Elites, Subjection, Subjugation, Cornel West, Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom

“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.

Children, 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.

Prolonged Slavery, Women, Human History, Susan B. Anthony

"The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history." - Susan B. Anthony, introduction, History of Woman Suffrage

Found on Notable Quotes at http://www.notable-quotes.com/a/anthony_susan_b.html.

Facts First, Distort, 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.

Never Doubt, Small Group, Change the World, Margaret Mead

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/margaret_mead_100502.

Man, Opinion, Woman, Her Opinion, Bette Davis

“When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch.” - Bette Davis. Off-screen, the star of All About Eve had a hard time scaring up a satisfactory Adam

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 176.

Cats, Happy, Mood, 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.

Sustained Outrage, Unthinking Respect, Molly Ivins

“What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.” - Molly Ivins

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 50.

Resentment, Drinking Poison, Nelson Mandela

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” - Nelson Mandela

Found in Parade Magazine at https://parade.com/1074913/kelseypelzer/nelson-mandela-quotes/.

Optimist, Prisoner of Hope, Cornel West

“I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.” ― Cornel West

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

All Else Fails, Library, Stephen King

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.” ― Stephen King, 11/22/63

Liberate a Woman, Liberate a Man, Margaret Mead

"Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man." - Margaret Mead

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/margaret_mead_105174.

Like to Be Remembered, Used Whatever Talent, Best of Her Ability, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability." - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Found on The Today Show at https://www.today.com/news/ruth-bader-ginsburg-quotes-20-inspiring-ideas-rbg-t192057r.

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.

People Were Afraid, Black Woman, Caricature, former First Lady 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 July, reflecting on the attacks she faced when her husband was in office.

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