Quotes

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“War is not women’s history.”

— Virginia Woolf

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul, then the way it treats its children.”

— Nelson Mandela

“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.”

— Professor Marian Sawer, Gillard PM: is gender irrelevant now? Politics and Policy, 30 June 2010

“If I’ve learned one thing in the past months it has been to save the energy I used to expend on being angry about injustice and put that energy into thinking and feeling joy, prosperity, sustainability, health and justice for all. This is what will change the world…………..a ground swell of people pouring their energy into manifesting their “preferred future” instead of being worn down by disillusion and disappointment.”

— Molly Carlile, Author of Jelly Beans and Dead Serious Podcast Network

“All people should strive to learn before they die: what they are running from, and to, and why.”

— James Thurber

“Courage is not the absence of fear. It is going forward with the face of fear.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“…Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

— Marianne Williamson, ‘A Return To Love’ (1992); quoted by Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech.

“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.”

— Matilda Joslyn Gage, from National Citizen and Ballot Box, 1889 — a newspaper she founded and edited.

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are just rearranging their prejudices.”

— William James

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

— Helen Keller
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