"It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself."

-- Betty Friedan

#Voice Quotes #Answers Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“A new future requires a new past.”

Source : Eric Foner (2003). “Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World”, p.83, Macmillan
“The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.”
“Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.”
“If weâ€™re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. Itâ€™s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.”
“Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.”
“So my views on equality are pretty obvious. I mean I did play a highly complex lesbian techno DJ on TV, but I know it's not always easy to come out and tell the world where you stand,”

Source : "Tamala Jones And Sarah Shahi Come Out As Gay Allies" by Glennisha Morgan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2013.
“Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.”

Source : "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. 2005.
“Such questions have never been discussed in scholarly publications because the Nazi laws, policies, and practices have never been adequately documented. The record establishes that a well-meaning liberal republic would enact a gun control act that would later be highly useful to a dictatorship.”

You may also like:

Bella Abzug
Lawyer
Bernard Nathanson
Medical doctor
Germaine Greer
Journalist
Gloria Steinem
Journalist
Kate Millett
Writer
Phyllis Schlafly
Lawyer
Shirley Chisholm
American Politician
Simone de Beauvoir
Writer
Susan B. Anthony
Women's rights activist