Voting Booth, Equal, Gloria Steinem

“The voting booth is the one place on earth where the least powerful and the most powerful are equal.” - Gloria Steinem

Found in The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion, by Gloria Steinem, page 24.

You Have to Pick the Places, Joan Didion

“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.” ― Joan Didion

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/238.Joan_Didion.

Empathy, Most Radical, Human Emotions, Gloria Steinem

“Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.” - Gloria Steinem

Found in The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion, by Gloria Steinem, page 96.

Ignorance, Expensive, Octavia Butler

“Ignorance is expensive.” - Octavia Butler, in Essence, May 1989.

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 31.

All Things Are Possible, Proved Impossible, Pearl S. Buck

“All things are possible until they are proved impossible – even the impossible may only be so, as of now.” - Pearl S. Buck

Found in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, page 37.

Dependent Children, Welfare, Gloria Steinem

“If they have dependent children, many women are one man away from welfare.” - Gloria Steinem

Found in The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion, by Gloria Steinem, page 36.

Empathy, Others Are Going Through, Courage, Do Something About It, Cornel West

“Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.” ― Cornel West

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6176.Cornel_West.