Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Monday, October 5, 2020

Central to a Woman's Life, Dignity, Decision That She Must Make, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"This is something central to a woman's life, to her dignity. It's a decision that she must make for herself. And when government controls that decision for her, she's being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices." - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, on support for abortion rights

Found on CNN at https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/19/politics/best-ruth-bader-ginsburg-quotes-trnd/index.html.

Sunday, October 4, 2020

Rage, Writers, Water, Fish, Nikki Giovanni

"Rage is to writers what water is to fish. A laid-back writer is like an orgasmic prostitute - an anomaly." - Nikki Giovanni, impassioned poet. (Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, compiled by Autumn Stephens.)

Saturday, October 3, 2020

Women Couldn't Do, Blacks Couldn't Do, Defeat, Challenge, Marian Wright Edelman

“There were so many things they said women couldn't do and blacks couldn't do. Every defeat to me was a challenge.” - Marian Wright Edelman, president and founder of Children's Defense Fund

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 13.