Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Mourn, Organize, Gloria Steinem
“We will not mourn. We will organize.” - Gloria Steinem, in the Special Elections 2016 issue of Ms. Magazine, page 11.
Agonize, Organize, Florynce Kennedy
“Don't agonize. Organize.” - Fleet-tongued Florynce Kennedy. Fortunately, the Ur-activist of the Sixties and Seventies seldom stayed down in the dumps for long.
Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 70.
Found in Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women, complied by Autumn Stephens, page 70.
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Lipstick, Pig, Barack Obama
“You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.” ― Barack Obama
Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6356.Barack_Obama.
Found on
Monday, September 1, 2025
Cheap Labor, Never Cheap, Audre Lorde
“Cheap labor is never cheap for the person who performs it.” - Audre Lorde, Commencement address, Oberlin College, May 29, 1989
Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 142.
Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 142.
Sunday, August 31, 2025
Make Progress, Sidelines, Implementing Ideas, Shirley Chisholm
“You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” - Shirley Chisholm
Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 78.
Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 78.
Saturday, August 30, 2025
Things Known, Things Unknown, Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” ― Aldous Huxley
Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3487.Aldous_Huxley.
Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3487.Aldous_Huxley.
Friday, August 29, 2025
Feminism, Feminist, Doormat, Rebecca West
"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat." - Rebecca West
Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/rebecca_west_105140.
Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/rebecca_west_105140.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)