Social Change, Act, Indira Gandhi

“Social change is brought about by those who dare and act, who can think unconventionally, and who can court unpopularity.” - Indira Gandhi

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 17.

Journalism, Democracy, Walter Cronkite

“Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.” – Walter Cronkite

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/walter_cronkite_804634.

Good Communication, 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.

Seize the Moment, Titanic, Dessert Cart, Erma Bombeck

“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.” - Erma Bombeck

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 42.

I Write, Speak, Voice, Silence, Audre Lorde

"I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't." - Audre Lorde

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/audre_lorde_409007.

Line Separating Good and Evil, Human Heart, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil.

"Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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

Some Birds, Wrong to Imprison Them, Stephen King

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” ― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

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

Everything We Do Matters, It Might, Gloria Steinem

“We have to behave as though everything we do matters – because it might.” - 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 92.

Keep Your Head, Losing Theirs, Grasped the Situation, Jean Kerr

“If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.” - Jean Kerr

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 91.

Love, Playing Checkers, Jackie “Moms” Mabley

“Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move.” - Jackie “Moms” Mabley. A Mom, but not a Mabley, at the outset of her career, the Apollo theater legend lifted her last name from Beau #1, who owed her for certain favors.

Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 76.

Solitary, Art of Loving, Bell Hooks

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” - Bell Hooks

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

Temporary Insanity, Ironing, Clothes, Sue Kolinsky

“I don't buy temporary insanity as a murder defense. Breaking into someone's home and ironing all their clothes is temporary insanity.” - Sue Kolinsky

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 52.

Doctor, 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.

Deny Laughter, Stays, Stephen King

"You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants." - Stephen King

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/stephen_king_106358.

Affects Males, Serious, Female Half, Gloria Steinem

“Anything that affects males is often seen as more serious than anything that affects 'only' the female half of the human race.” - 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 109.

Man Who's Warm, Freezing, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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

Real Love, Real Union, 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.

Life, Short, Done in the Now, Audre Lorde

"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now." - Audre Lorde

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/audrelorde383487.html.

Leaps of Imagination, Dreaming, Possibilities, 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.

When We Speak, Welcomed, Silent, Better to Speak, Audre Lorde

"When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak." - Audre Lorde

Found on BrainyQuote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/audre_lorde_392663.

When Humor Goes, Civilization, Erma Bombeck

"When humor goes, there goes civilization." - Erma Bombeck

Found on BrainyQuote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/erma_bombeck_131317.

Thing Under My Bed, Under the Covers, Stephen King

“The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.” ― Stephen King, Night Shift

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

Advice to Children: Watch the Cars, Moms Mabley

“Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.” - Moms Mabley

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 104.

Unlimited Power, Limited People, Cruelty, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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

Black Woman Writer, Write, Bell Hooks

“No black woman writer in this culture can write 'too much.' Indeed, no woman writer can write 'too much.'...No woman has ever written enough.” - Bell Hooks

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 53.

Take Sides, Neutrality, Oppressor, Elie Wiesel

“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” - Elie Wiesel

Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/elie_wiesel.html.

Equal Rights Amendment, Justice Antonin Scalia, Speaker 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.

Speak Out, Cannot Speak, Jane Goodall

“The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.” ― Jane Goodall

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

In Germany, They Came, Didn't Speak Up, Martin Niemoller

"In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I was not a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me." - Martin Niemoller, 1945 (WW1 war hero & U Boat Captain, WW2 pastor who spent 7 years in Nazi prisons).

This is one variant of the quote by Martin Niemoller. Variations include trade unionists, social democrats, and others. We are now observing orders in the U.S. aimed at Muslims, with the false idea that all Muslims are terrorists - an idea as wrong as the idea that "all blacks are bad", "all blonds are dumb", "all ____ are _____."

You can view this and some of the variants at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Niemöller, or Google Martin Niemoller for more links.

All Else Fails, Library, Stephen King

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

Found in Goodreads Stephen King quotes section.