Quotes for Women's History Month (March)

This is embarrassing, but I did not realize that I had collected this and never posted it. When I was looking at the May quotes, I found it.

This is even more appropriate for the week when I skipped two days do to being busy and tired. 

That sort of goes along with how this year has been going. I try and do a lot, and actually I am doing a lot, but it's never quite as polished and perfect as I want and sometimes forgotten things jump out at me.

However, if this is true of lots of people, it's probably still more true of women, of which I am one.

Here's to me!

There are repeats, which I usually try to avoid. There were quotes I didn't want to lose by Fannie Lou Hamer and Marie Curie.

Here's to them! 

3/1 "Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth." -- Shirley Chisholm

3/2 "One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am." -- Michelle Obama

3/3 "People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I did not think of being physically tired. My feet were not hurting. I was tired in a different way. I was tired of seeing so many men treated as boys and not called by their proper names or titles. I was tired of seeing children and women mistreated and disrespected because of the color of their skin. I was tired of Jim Crow laws, of legally enforced racial segregation." -- Rosa Parks

3/4 "You cannot find peace by avoiding life." -- Virginia Woolf

3/5 “One must dare to be happy.” ― Gertrude Stein

3/6 “Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.” ― Simone de Beauvoir

3/7 “Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” ― Betty Friedan

3/8 "Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes." -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

3/9 "Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it." -- Emily Dickinson

3/10 "It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated." -- Edith Hamilton

3/11 "Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off." -- Fannie Lou Hamer

3/12 "Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained." -- Marie Curie

3/13 "Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again." -- Adrienne Rich

3/14 "It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences." -- Audre Lorde

3/15 "When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other." -- bell hooks

3/16 "A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared." -- Gloria E. Anzaldúa

3/17 “Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.”  -- Rosalind Franklin

3/18 "Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'" -- Dian Fossey

3/19 "I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less." -- Sandra Cisneros

3/20 "There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die." -- Joy Harjo

3/21 "Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother." -- Jane Goodall

3/22 "The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." -- Ida B. Wells

3/23 "I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity." – Eleanor Roosevelt

3/24 "No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time." -- Twyla Tharp

3/25  "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." -- Marie Curie

3/26 "There are years that ask questions and years that answer." -- Zora Neale Hurston

3/27 "The first act of insight is throw away the labels." -- Eudora Welty

3/28 "I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that." -- Anita Hill

3/29 "You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap." -- Fannie Lou Hamer

3/30 "The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source." -- Lucretia Mott

3/31 "When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose." -- Kimberle Williams Crenshaw