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Anne Hutchinson: She was a...

Anne Hutchinson: She was a...

She was a woman of haughty and fierce carriage, a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than...

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Charleszetta Waddles: God knows no...

Charleszetta Waddles: God knows no...

God knows no distance.

Source: Mother Waddles: Black Angel of the Poor, by Lee...

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Harriet Tubman: I link dar's...

Harriet Tubman: I link dar's...

I link dar's many a slaveholder'll git to Heaven. Dey don't know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey...

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Emma Goldman: When we can't...

Emma Goldman: When we can't...

When we can't dream any longer, we die.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Charlotte Bunch: If you think...

Charlotte Bunch: If you think...

If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make...

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Margaret Sanger: Diplomats make it...

Margaret Sanger: Diplomats make it...

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Source: Woman and the New...

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Andrea Dworkin: Men have defined...

Andrea Dworkin: Men have defined...

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence,...

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Lucretia Mott: Let woman then...

Lucretia Mott: Let woman then...

Let woman then go on -- not asking as favour, but claiming as right, the removal of all the hindrances to her...

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Mary Church Terrell: Lifting as they...

Mary Church Terrell: Lifting as they...

Lifting as they climb, onward and upward they go struggling and striving and hoping that the buds and blossoms of...

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Sylvia Pankhurst: The emancipation of...

Sylvia Pankhurst: The emancipation of...

The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts. . . painted lips and nails, and the return...

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Chris Evert Lloyd: Ninety percent of...

Chris Evert Lloyd: Ninety percent of...

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

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Martina Navratilova: Just go out...

Martina Navratilova: Just go out...

Just go out there and do what you've got to do.

Source:
-- Martina Navratilova,...

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Althea Gibson: No matter what...

Althea Gibson: No matter what...

No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you.

Source: In Time, 26...

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Amelia Earhart: The more one...

Amelia Earhart: The more one...

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of...

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Helen Keller: Your success and...

Helen Keller: Your success and...

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host...

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Phyllis McGinley: The knowingness of...

Phyllis McGinley: The knowingness of...

The knowingness of little girls
Is hidden underneath their curls.


Source: What...

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Diane Sawyer: It's in the...

Diane Sawyer: It's in the...

It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe....

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Kathleen Turner: I know there...

Kathleen Turner: I know there...

I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man...

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Tallulah Bankhead: I have been...

Tallulah Bankhead: I have been...

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free...

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Barbara Bush: Bias has to...

Barbara Bush: Bias has to...

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are...

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