"If society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of society.
Barbara Jordan
Remarks at a symposium "The Johnson Years: LBJ: the Difference He Made," University of Texas at Austin and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, May 3-5, 1990.

"...We need to devote less energy to judging and criticizing each other, and more to forging consensus and understanding..."
Olympia Snowe
Speech to The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, June 3, 1997.

"...I want to be known as a woman who lived in the 20th century, who happened to be black and was a major catalyst for change for women. That's how I want to be remembered."
Shirley Chisholm www.brooklyn-usa.org

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt www.usdreams.com

"Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it for fear they won't be loved."
Patricia Schroeder www.bemorecreative.com

"I myself have never been able to find out exactly what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."
Rebecca West, The Clarion, 1913, England
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"If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?"
Kishida Toshiko, 19th century Japanese feminist http://www.umkc.edu/imc/quoteswo.htm

"If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."
Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister
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"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there."
Indira Gandhi, former prime minister of India http://www.umkc.edu/imc/quoteswo.htm

"It was in the abolition movement that women first learned to organize, to hold public meetings, to conduct petition campaigns. As abolitionists they first won the right to speak in public, and began to evolve a philosophy of their place in society and of their basic rights. For a quarter of a century the two movements, to free the slave and liberate the women, nourished and strengthened one another."
Eleanor Flexner, women's movement pioneer http://www.umkc.edu/imc/quoteswo.htm