Nation of Immigrants, Barack Obama

"My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too." - Barack Obama

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Service, Rent, Room, Shirley Chisholm

“Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.” - Shirley Chisholm

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Life is Short, Audre Lorde

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

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Feminist, Doormat, Rebecca West

“People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.” - Writer Rebecca West, puzzled (but not insulted) by the F-word.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 17.

Language, Complain, Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin

“I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.” - Writer Jane Wagner, the wry collaborative mind behind some of Lily Tomlin's best lines.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 15.

Child, Individuality, Taste, Accessory, Erma Bombeck

“A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.” - Erma Bombeck

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 40.

Believe Absurdities, Commit Atrocities, Voltaire

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire

Found in The Sun, May 2017, pg.48, “Sunbeams”