Accept Responsibility, One's Own Life, Joan Didion

“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.” - Joan Didion

Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 21.

Monsters, Ghosts, They Win, Stephen King

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” ― Stephen King

Found on GoodReads. Can be viewed here.

Republican Answer, Democratic Answer, Right Answer, Accept Our Own Responsibility, John F. Kennedy

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future." - John F. Kennedy

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/john_f_kennedy_121400.

God Made Man, Do Better, Made Woman, Adela Rogers St. Johns

“God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.” - Adela Rogers St. Johns

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 128.

You Must Write, Lurk in Libraries, Ray Bradbury

“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.” ― Ray Bradbury

Found on Goodreads. Click here for more Ray Bradbury quotes.

Breathe That Air, Live Here, Drink That Water, Winona LaDuke

“You can change the terms, you can change the allowable limits, you can do the risk assessment – all these things – but in the end, the fact is that you and I drink that water. You and I breathe that air. You and I live here.” - Winona LaDuke

Found in The Sun, July 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”

Man's Got to Do, Woman Must Do, Rhonda Hansome

“A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.” - Rhonda Hansome

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 77.