Martha Shelley famous quotes

...I discovered that I could take a risk and survive. I could march in Philadelphia. I could go out in the street and be gay evenin a dress or a skirt without getting shot. Each victory gave me courage for the next one.
-- Martha Shelley

#Courage #Gay #Philadelphia

I have met many feminists who were not Lesbians but I have never met a Lesbian who was not a feminist.
-- Martha Shelley

#Feminist #Mets

A woman who doesn't care what men think of her - ah, this is dangerous. This is the worst conceivable insult to the male ego.
-- Martha Shelley

#Men #Thinking #Ego

...there was the annual Fourth of July picketing at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. ...I thought it was ridiculous to have to go there in a skirt. But I did it anyway because it was something that might possibly have an effect. I remember walking around in my little white blouse and skirt and tourists standing there eating their ice cream cones and watching us like the zoo had opened.
-- Martha Shelley

#Zoos #Ice Cream #July

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.

You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.

The very first words that we, the American nation, spoke were right here in Philadelphia. You know those words: "We the people." It wasn't, "We the conglomerates." It wasn't, "We the corporations." It was, "We the people.

The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives.

My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."

I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.