One Story, John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.” ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/585.John_Steinbeck.

Birth, Sex, Genius, Charlotte Bronte

“Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius.” - Charlotte Bronte

Found in Treasury of Women's Quotations, by Carolyn Warner, page 3.

Fool Some of the People, Maya Angelou

“I found out that you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool yourself.” - Maya Angelou, in Conversations with Maya Angelou, 1989.

Found in Contemporary Quotations in Black, compiled and edited by Anita King, page 10.

In Truth, Shape the Future, Gloria Steinem

“In truth, we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.” - Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

Found in Ms. Magazine, Fall 2020, page 2.

Because Women's Work, Never Done, Underpaid, Unpaid, Women's Liberation Movement, Brigit Books, Joyce Stevens

"Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we don't we're frigid and if we love women it's because we can't get a "real" man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive and "unfeminine" and if we don't we're typical weak females and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man and if we don't we're unnatural and because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy we're made to feel guilty about abortion and...for lots of other reasons we are part of the women's liberation movement." - Author unknown, quoted in The Torch, 14 September 1987

I first read these words on a poster at Brigit Books in St. Petersburg, Florida. Brigit Books has long since closed (darn!). But I was able to find out that Joyce Stevens wrote the above quote as a Union Song for Women's Liberation Broadsheet, International Woman's Day, 1975.

Numerous links had this listed as "Author unknown, quoted in The Torch." While I was able to find links to several magazines and newsletters listed as The Torch, none of them were ones that had listed this quote. However, we now know who wrote these words.

Blame, Fault, Katharine Hepburn

“...We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – you can blame anyone, but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's ALWAYS your fault, because if you wanted to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?” - Katharine Hepburn

Found in The Quotable Woman, by Running Press, Editor, page 26.

Questions, How Long, Time, David Bowie

“As you get older the questions come down to two or three. How long have I got and what am I gonna do with the time I've got left?” ― David Bowie

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/10360.David_Bowie.