While there are plenty other women to inspire us, the following 11 are a good place to start.
Its never your fault.
Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003)
2.
Let us stop saying white Americans and colored Americans.
Let us try once and for all saying … Americans.Let humans be equalon Earth as in Heaven.
Josephine Baker (1906-1975)
3.
I was just with someone complaining about his mother.
Hes 70 and his mother is dead.
They love being victims.
Then you get older and want to say, Pull up your socks.
Nora Ephron (1941-2012)
4.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act.
The rest is merely tenacity.
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937, when she disappeared)
5.
People always say that I didnt give up my seat because I was tired, but that isnt true.
I was not tired physically.
… No, the only tired I was was tired of giving in.
Rosa Parks(1913-2005)
6.
Dont spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel (1883-1971)
7.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.
Marie Curie (1867-1934)
8.
Beware of monotony; its the mother of all the deadly sins.
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
9.
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements.
I dont need a bedroom to prove my womanliness.
I can convey just as much sex appeal picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993)
10.
If nobody can learn from the past, then theres no point in raking it up.
Billie Holiday (1915-1959)
11.
Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang.
You never want to go out with a whimper.
Everything can have drama if its done right.
Julia Child (1912-2004)
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