Celebrating Our She-roes // Women's History Month
"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate
our heroes and she-roes."
Maya Angelou
I've been meaning to post something about Women's History Month all month long, so here we are.
Some of these quotes I have had in my quote collection for years and years -- practically since childhood.
Some are funny, some are powerful, but all of them are true. Enjoy :]
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote
so many poems without signing them, was often
a woman.
Virginia Woolf
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world
by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to
go out and kick ass.
Maya Angelou
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail.
Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
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No matter how successful I become as a playwright,
my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd
just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and
become a lawyer.
Wendy Wasserstein
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The thing women have yet to learn is
nobody gives you power. You just take it.
Roseanne Barr
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In politics if you want anything said, ask a man.
If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher
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Speaking at Yale University:
Some of us are becoming the men
we wanted to marry.
Gloria Steinem
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There are no good girls gone wrong -- just
bad girls found out.
Mae West
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And of course I'm saving my current favorites for last:
If I want to knock a story off the front page,
I just change my hairstyle.
Probably my worst quality is that I get very
passionate about what I think is right.
I wasn't born a first lady or a senator.
I wasn't born a Democrat.
I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's
rights and human rights.
I wasn't born a wife or a mother.
I'm not some Tammy Wynette standing by my man.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY)
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It's an historic moment for the Congress,
it's an historic moment for the women of America.
It is a moment for which we have waited over 200 years.
It takes a woman to clean House.
Never losing faith, we waited throughthe many
years of struggle to achieve our rights.
But women weren't just waiting, women were working,
never losing faith we worked to redeem the promise
of America, that all men and women are created equal.
For our daughters and our granddaughters,
today we have broken the marble ceiling.
For our daughters and our granddaughters, the sky is the limit.
Anything is possible for them.
Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives (D-CA)
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