Language, Complain, Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin

“I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.” - Writer Jane Wagner, the wry collaborative mind behind some of Lily Tomlin's best lines.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 15.

Child, Individuality, Taste, Accessory, Erma Bombeck

“A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.” - Erma Bombeck

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 40.

Believe Absurdities, Commit Atrocities, Voltaire

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire

Found in The Sun, May 2017, pg.48, “Sunbeams”

Never Doubt, Committed Citizens, Change the World, Margaret Mead

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." — Margaret Mead

Found at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/margaretme100502.html.

I Write, Women Who Do Not Speak, Silence, Audre Lorde

"I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't." - Audre Lorde

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/audrelorde409007.html.

Future, Used to Be, Linda Moakes

“The future isn't what it used to be.” - Linda Moakes

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 123.

Aging, Irene Mayer Selznick, Marie Von Exner-Eschenbach

“I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.” - Irene Mayer Selznick

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 153.

“In youth we learn; in age we understand.” - Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 154.