Life Celebration Quotes
500 Quotes from Famous Women
Crafted with the reader in mind, this collection is clearly divided by themes:
Self-control, Meditation, Peace
Inspiration / Motivation
Character / Integrity
Knowledge / Truth
Humor / Laughter
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
Alice Koller
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Alice Walker
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power — not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
Bell Hooks
Power’s not given to you. You have to take it.
Beyoncé
Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Brooks Adams
We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.
Dorothy Day
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.
Hannah Arendt
Everything is within your power, and your power is within you.
Janice Trachtman
Margaret Atwood
If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful – the ‘ruling class’ – make up the rules as they go along.
Marilyn Ferguson
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
Martha Beck
We know that when a woman speaks truth to power, there will be attempts to put her down… I’m not going to go anywhere.
Maxine Waters
Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception. We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Simone de Beauvoir
All oppression creates a state of war.
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.
Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
I ask for no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
Sarah Moore Grimké
The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we’re all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective.
Sarah Pinborough
Words have power. TV has power. My pen has power.
Shonda Rhimes
