Resolve, Live Your Life, Lie, Triumph, Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.” ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/19771050.Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn.

More Children, Car Windows, Erma Bombeck

“Never have more children than you have car windows.” - Erma Bombeck

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 87.

Don't Vote, Don't Count, 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.

Without Memory, Culture, Civilization, Elie Wiesel

"Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future." - Elie Wiesel

Found at Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/eliewiesel451199.html.

Civil Rights, Women's Rights, Justice Sonia Sotomayor

“When the civil rights and women’s rights movements sought equality in public life, some public establishments refused. Some even claimed, based on sincere religious beliefs, constitutional rights to discriminate. The brave Justices who once sat on this Court decisively rejected those claims.” - Justice Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting to the Supreme Court’s decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, which held that business owners have the right under the First Amendment to refuse service to LGVTQ+ people

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

Relegate, History Books, Token Woman, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“We are at last beginning to relegate to the history books the idea of the token woman.” - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, about her legacy

Found on CNN at https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/19/politics/best-ruth-bader-ginsburg-quotes-trnd/index.html.

Get Through a Single Day, Impact on the World, Jane Goodall

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” ― Jane Goodall

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/18163.Jane_Goodall.

Wake Up One Morning, Got it, Moms Mabley

“You just wake up one morning, and you got it!” (on old age) – Moms Mabley

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

Being a Bitch, Hold On To, Stephen King

“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.” ― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

Found on GoodReads. Read more here.

Not Mourn, Organize, Gloria Steinem

“We will not mourn. We will organize.” - Gloria Steinem, in the Special Elections 2016 issue of Ms. Magazine, page 11.

Cheap Labor, Never Cheap, Audre Lorde

“Cheap labor is never cheap for the person who performs it.” - Audre Lorde, Commencement address, Oberlin College, May 29, 1989

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 142.

Cold, Sympathy, Warm, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in Life of Ivan Denisovich

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/19771050.Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn.

Serious Daring, Within, Eudora Welty

“All serious daring starts from within.” - Eudora Welty

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 19.

Cleaning Your Home, Kids, Shoveling the Walk, Phyllis Diller

“Cleaning your home while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.” - Phyllis Diller

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 53.

Any Mother, Air-Traffic Controllers, Lisa Alther

“Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.” - Lisa Alther

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 69.

Glass Ceiling, Pliable, Heat, 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.

Fame, Success, Madonna, Helen Keller, Erma Bombeck

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other." - Erma Bombeck

Found on BrainyQuote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/erma_bombeck_122099.

You Can, You Should, You Will, Stephen King

“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Found on Goodreads. Read more at https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?utf8=✓&q=Stephen+King&commit=Search.

Puppy Love, Dog's Life, Gladiola Montana

“Be wary of puppy love; it can lead to a dog's life.” - Gladiola Montana

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 67.

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.

Keeping Silent About Evil, Foundations of Justice, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/19771050.Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn.

Feet, Right Place, Stand Firm, Abraham Lincoln

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." - Abraham Lincoln

Found in Country Living at https://www.countryliving.com/life/g5054/quotes-about-strength/?slide=4.

Women on the Supreme Court, Nine, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"When I'm sometimes asked 'When will there be enough (women on the Supreme Court)?' and my answer is: 'When there are nine.' People are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that." - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Found on CNN at https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/19/politics/best-ruth-bader-ginsburg-quotes-trnd/index.html.

Racism, Violence, Gloria Steinem

"The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem." - Gloria Steinem

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/gloriastei690680.html.

Simple Philosophy, 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.

Talent, Table Salt, Hard Work, Stephen King

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work." - Stephen King

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/stephen_king_163656.

Declaration, Natural Right, Consent of the Governed, Susan B. Anthony

"Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can 'the consent of the governed' be given if the right to vote be denied?" - Susan B. Anthony

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/susan_b_anthony_765245.

Photograph, Secret, Photographer Diane Arbus

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.” - Photographer Diane Arbus

“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.” - Photographer Diane Arbus

“My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.” - Photographer Diane Arbus, whose penchant for peculiar-looking posers led her down some rather unusual paths.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 162.

Simple Step, Lie, Truth, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/19771050.Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn.

Poetry, Dream and Vision, Audre Lorde

"Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before." - Audre Lorde

Found on BrainyQuote. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/audre_lorde_408960.

Voting Booth, 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.