“Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you.” - Mae West
Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 33.
Saturday, September 6, 2025
Friday, September 5, 2025
No Person, Friend, Silence, Alice Walker
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” - Alice Walker
Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 89.
Found in Quotes for Nasty Women: Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules, by Linda Picone, page 89.
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Fly, Run, Walk, Crawl, Moving Forward, Martin Luther King, Jr.
"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
From http://www.inc.com/marla-tabaka/31-martin-luther-king-jr-quotes-to-inspire-greatness-in-you.html
From http://www.inc.com/marla-tabaka/31-martin-luther-king-jr-quotes-to-inspire-greatness-in-you.html
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.
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