Hard to Fight, Outposts, Sally Kempton

“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” - Sally Kempton

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 35.

Life, Marie of Romania, Not So Deep as a Well, Dorothy Parker

"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,

A medley of extemporanea;

And love is a thing that can never go wrong;

And I am Marie of Romania."

Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment" US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967), Quotation #126 at Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations.

Consent to Creep, Impulse to Soar, Helen Keller

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” - Helen Keller

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 26.

Love, Hiding Place, Zora Neale Hurston

"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." - Zora Neale Hurston

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/zora_neale_hurston_106544.

Truth is Proper, All Times, Frederick Douglass

“Truth is proper and beautiful at all times and in all places.” - Frederick Douglass

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

Being a Bitch, All a Woman's Got to Hold on to, Dolores Claiborne, 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.

Be Critical, Women Have the Right, Tillie Olsen

“Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.” - Tillie Olsen. After twenty years of transcribing other people's words, the long-suppressed author of Silences finally found her own voice.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 13.