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(from Merriam-Webster Web Site) Quote of the day: "Remember
no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." "If
we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize
the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social
fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place." "People
think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually
a job is better for me." "I
am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals
were liberators - they fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote,
fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid.
Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's
to be ashamed of?" "Never
doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." "The first problem
for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn." "We
still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women,
believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home." "We've
chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around." "The family
unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation
to come." "Something
which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade." "You
can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled." "You
can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy,
or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do." "I've learned
from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our
dispositions and not on our circumstances." "For what is done
or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood,
the property of all women." "Don't
compromise yourself. You are all you've got." "Far away there
in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look
up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
"In
passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid
the blame on a woman." "Cautious, careful
people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never
can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything
or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and
out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the
consequences." "I
can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an
undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of
the possible outcome." "It's
so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these
older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower is to
bloom." "I
think the key is for women not to set any limits." "My address
is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong."
"We
stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar
poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively
easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its
end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one "less traveled by" - offers
our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation
of the earth." "As
a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." "Many
persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained
through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." |
