When I Grew Up, In Charge, Wilma Vaught

“What I wanted to be when I grew up was – in charge.” - Wilma Vaught, Brigadier General of the U.S. Air Force.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 156.

In Touch with our Bodies, Not 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.

Campus, Women, Combining Marriage/children/career, Men, Gloria Steinem

"I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing." - Gloria Steinem

Found on Brainy Quote at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/gloriastei105162.html.

Terrorize Whole Nation, Accomplices, Edward R. Murrow

"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices." - Edward R. Murrow

Can be found at Goodreads or by clicking here.

No Pessimist, Secrets of the Stars, Human Spirit, Helen Keller

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” - Helen Keller

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 21.

Doing What You Do, Not Being Able to Do, Grace Paley

“You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.” - Grace Paley, failed poet, acclaimed short story writer.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 163.

Women, Marriage, Fifty-Fifty Proposition, Men, Percentages, Flo Kennedy

“Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.” - Flo Kennedy

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 71.