“Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
–Robert Brault
“We are uneasy with the president as ‘she’ because encountering it forces us to have in mind a new conception of ‘president’.”
–Robin Lakoff, linguistics professor emerita at U.C. Berkeley
“It has been shocking to experience the storm of criticism, lies and malicious conspiracies that have preceded and followed my public testimony, but I have no regrets. I did – we did – what our conscience called us to do. We did what the gift of U.S. citizenship requires us to do.”
–Marie Yovanovitch, Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
“Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.”
–Dorothy Parker, writer
“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.”
–Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice
“New ideas are not only the enemy of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.”
–Carl Gustav Jung
“The difference between a broken community and a thriving one is the presence of women who are valued.”
–Michelle Obama, Former First Lady of the United States
“I’m so sick of running as fast as I can wondering if I’d get there quicker if I was a man.”
–Taylor Swift, performer
“How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feels welcome to participate in the conversation.”
–Emma Watson, actress and activist
“People are very open-minded about new things – as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.”
–Charles Kettering
“What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.”
“If you’re going to play the game properly, you’d better know every rule.”
“I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He’s just incapable of it.”
–Barbara Jordan