Quotes

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“War is not women’s history.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Anger closes the mind and cools the heart when both are need most”

— Anonymous

“No matter how educated or wealthy you are,
if you don’t have peace of mind, you won’t be happy.”

— His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

“Men rule because women let them. Male misogyny is real enough, and it has dreadful consequences, but female misogyny is what keeps women out of power.”

— Germaine Greer, What will electing a woman PM do for Australian women? Sun Herald, 28 June 2010

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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

— Ben Elton, Blast from the Past

“Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.”

— Mahatma Gandhi, Economic and Moral Progress, 22 December 1921

“People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centred: Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies: Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous: Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow: Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God:
It was never between you and them anyway.”

— Mother Teresa (St Teresa of Kolkata), quoting the Paradoxical Commandments by Kent M. Keith (1968), Mother Teresa: A Simple Path, compiled by Lucinda Vardey (1995), page 185.

“Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.”

— George Lucas

“Real women don’t have flushes, they have power surges.”

— Australian physician and author, Sandra Cabot
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