Harriet Beecher Stowe:

"Women are the true architects of society."

Mother Teresa:

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

Susan B. Anthony:

"I pray every single second of my life; not on my knees, but with my work. My prayer is to lift woman to equality with man. Work and worship are one with me. I can not imagine a God of the universe made happy by my getting down on my knees."

"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."

Dorothy Day:

"The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom

that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose."

Isadora Duncan (1878 - 1927):

"People do not live nowadays. They get about ten percent out of life."

Marian Anderson:

"As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might."

Julie Andrews:

"Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth."

"All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time."

Maya Angelou:

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."

"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers."

Hannah Arendt:

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

"War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford."

"There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous."

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil."

Pearl Bailey:

"There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat it."

Erica Jong:

"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy’?"

Jessamyn West:

"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."

"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions."