Quotes

Quote #9: Women's History Month 2009

“I am here because I shall not give the earth up to non-dreamers...” — Sonia Sanchez, author & poet, homegirls & handgrenades

Mar, 01

Quote #8: My mother's child

"I was motivated to be different in part because I was different." — Donna Brazile, political analyst and strategist

Feb, 27

Quote #7: Free at last

"If you’re not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you." — Donna Brazile, political analyst and strategist

Feb, 24

Quote #6

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." — Martin Luther King Jr., humanitarian and activist

Jan, 15

Quote #5

"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt." — Shirley Chisholm, politician and activist

Dec, 10

Quote #4

"I always had a fugitive relationship to political power." — Jeffrey Wright, actor

Dec, 07

"Empowering girls not only to believe in themselves but to believe that they can overcome many hurdles makes a world of difference." — Penina Mlama, Executive Director of Camfed Tanzania and former Executive Director of Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE)

Dec, 03

Quote #2

"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl." — Shirley Chisholm, politician and activist

Nov, 27

Quote #1

"If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever-more wonders." — Andrew Harvey, The Return of the Mother

Nov, 15

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