No Person, Your Friend, Demands Your 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.

Loneliness, Being Unwanted, Most Terrible Poverty, Mother Teresa

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” - Mother Teresa

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 97.

Being a Bitch, Dolores Claiborne, Stephen King

“Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to.” ― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

Found on GoodReads. Read more here.

Smart and Capable, Live in Community Together, Anna Quindlen

“I learned that women were smart and capable, could live in community together without men, and in fact did not need men much.” - Anna Quindlen, nun-educated essayist, on the feminist fringe benefits of attending parochial school.

Found in Wild Words from Wild Women: An Unbridled Collection of Candid Observations & Extremely Opinionated Bon Mots, Compiled by Autumn Stephens, page 109.

Virtues, Dangers, Shared Laughter, Francoise Sagan

“One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.” - Francoise Sagan

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 84.

Being a Woman, Dealing with Men, Joseph Conrad

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men." - Joseph Conrad

Found on Brainy Quote, at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/josephconr105151.html.

No Great Things, Small Things, Great Love, Mother Teresa

“We can do no great things – only small things with great love.” - Mother Teresa

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 96.