"We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us 'baby.'"
- Elizabeth Janeway
"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver."
- Charlotte Perkins Gillman
"To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane."
- Jane Harrison
"Lead me not into temptation, I can find the way myself."
- Rita Mae Brown
"Instant gratification takes too long."
- Carrie Fisher
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
"When we talk to God we are praying; when God talks to us, we are schizophrenic."
- Lily Tomlin
"Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies."
- Adrienne Gusoff
"All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific."
- Jane Wagner / Lily Tomlin
"Normal is in the eye of the beholder."
- Whoopi Goldberg
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."
- Katharine Hepburn
"Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often."
- Mae West
"My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said 'Just wait.'"
- Judy Tenuta
"I think, therefore I'm single."
- Liz Winstead
"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves."
- August Strindberg
"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels."
- Faith Whittlesey
"I never know how much of what I say is true."
- Bette Midler
"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people."
- Cheris Kramare and Paula Treichler
"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
"Feminism is not a doctrine that seeks to confine us but rather a quest we continually define."
- Caroline Soriosis
"My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do."
- Ani DiFranco
"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."
- Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton (motto of The Revolution newspaper)
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."
- Marie Curie
"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."
- Maya Angelou
"I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it."
- Alanis Morissette
"Nature provides exceptions to every rule."
- Margaret Fuller
"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music."
- Angela Monet
"Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?"
- Lillian Hellman
"Taken out of context I must seem so strange."
- Ani DiFranco, "Fire Door"
"As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world."
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
"Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy."
- Ann Northrop
"There is not one female comedian who was beautiful as a little girl."
- Joan Rivers
"Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression."
- Margaret Sanger
"Conventionality is not morality."
- Charlotte Brontė
"Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative."
- Jeanette Winterson
"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive."
- Audre Lorde
"Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!"
- Barbara Bush
"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."
- Jodie Foster
"You know, I think I could have the cure to AIDS or cancer in my head, but that brain cell is filled instead with old dialogue from the Brady Bunch."
- Mary Newton
"I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?"
- Joan Baez
"Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes."
- Tori Amos
"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."
- Shirley Temple
"They sicken of the calm who know the storm."
- Dorothy Parker
"Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself."
- Doris Lessing
"I am thirty two flavors and then some
and I'm beyond your peripheral vision
so you might wanna turn your head
'cause some day you might find you are starving
and eating all of the words that you said."
- Ani DiFranco, "Thirty-Two Flavours"
"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do."
- Anais Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin
"Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power."
- Tori Amos
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Defender for the Light -
Goodness knows there is a lot of Dark out there!! - Where are my matches?!?
Wandering Soul - Finding my life's calling is Bodhisattva
Looking for lost brain - I left it only for a moment....and there it goes... rolling under the table!!
Noticing that the Light has gotten further down a Dark Tunnel than expected... Time to get the Lantern... Knowing sooner or later - I will get to the End of this Tunnel to the Open Air once again...