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March is Women's History Month...Quotes by Famous and Talented Women |
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
- Golda Meir, a founder of the State of Israel and its fourth
Prime Minister (1969-74).
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
- Margaret Thatcher, first woman in European history to be
elected Prime Minister. She was the PM of Britain from 1979-1990.
“I’ve never had a humble opinion. If you’ve got an opinion,
why be humble about it?”
- Joan Baez, American folk-singer and activist.
“Failure must be but a challenge to others.”
- Amelia Earhart, (1898-1937) U.S. aviation pioneer and author.
“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.”
- Lillian Hellman, (1907-1984) American dramatist, in her letter
to the House Un-American Activities Committee, May 1952.
“Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no
remedy for the worst of them
all – the apathy of human beings.”
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Helen Keller, (1880-1968) American deaf-blind author and
campaigner, in My Religion.
“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well
speak of a female liver.”
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, (1860-1935) U.S. feminist poet,
novelist, and historian, in Women and Economics.
“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it.
And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of American President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, and activist for many causes, in Voice of America broadcast, November 11, 1951
“The most violent element in society in ignorance.”
- Emma Goldman, (1869-1940) activist and anarchist, who advocated
free speech, birth control, women’s equality, and union organization.
