“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.
Sunday, August 31, 2025
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.
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Most Terrible Things, War, Genocide, Slavery, Disobedience, Obedience, Howard Zinn
“Historically, the most terrible things – war, genocide, and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” ― Howard Zinn
Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1899.Howard_Zinn.
Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1899.Howard_Zinn.
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Gratitude, Something is Missing, Humanity, Elise Wiesel
"When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude." Elie Wiesel
Found at Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/eliewiesel599768.html.
Found at Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/eliewiesel599768.html.
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Biggest Sin, Sitting, Florynce Kennedy
“The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.” - 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.
Monday, August 25, 2025
Silence, Protect You, Audre Lorde
"Your silence will not protect you." - Audre Lorde
Found at Brainy Quote. Read it at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/audrelorde357292.html.
Found at Brainy Quote. Read it at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/audrelorde357292.html.
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