“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”
“Caring about someone as much as you care about yourself, and the critical eye that comes with it, are two strands that cannot be separated. Both engender a passion that makes the mother-daughter relationship perilous—and precious.”
“Within every man there is the reflection of a woman, and within every woman there is the reflection of a man. Within every man and woman there is also the reflection of an old man and an old woman, a little boy and a little girl.”
“The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied, and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one thousand generations back of them … Millions of women, dead and gone are speaking through us today.”
“Having the freedom of speech does not mean saying what’s humane, hateless and non-prejudicial.”
“Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren’t opposite—the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be..”
“While Australia was the first country to give women the right to stand as well as to vote for the national parliament, Finland was the second. And Finland immediately elected nineteen women to its parliament (in 1907) while Australia had essentially given women the right to stand but not to sit. It was not until 1943 that the first women took their seats in Australia’s national parliament.”
“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.”
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
