Quotes

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“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.”

— Corrie Ten Boom

“To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.”

— Ben Elton, Blast from the Past

“The day will come when men will recognise women as their peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.”

— Susan B. Anthony

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

— Mark Twain

“Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We’re not inherently anything but human.”

— Robin Morgan (1941- ) feminist editor and writer

“Society is indeed a contract – becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”

— Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790

“It is what we make of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Having the freedom of speech does not mean saying what’s humane, hateless and non-prejudicial.”

— Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“War is not women’s history.”

— Virginia Woolf

“If it were between countries, we’d call it war;
if it were a disease, we’d call it an epidemic;
if were an oil spill, we’d call it a disaster;
but it’s happening to thousands of Australian women – and it’s just a domestic.”

— Unknown, This Quote appeared in Putting Women First – a statewide approach to family and domestic violence’, published by VWRADVS and DHS. Betty Taylor uses it at the beginning of her Paper ‘Clearing Pathways – Reforming Systems: A Reflection of the Achievements a
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