"They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of the Woman. Then from 1975 to 1985 they gave us a decade, the Decade of the Woman. I said at the time, who knows, if we behave they may let us into the whole thing. Well, we didn't behave and here we are."

-- Bella Abzug

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“My parents never pushed me to be an actress. You can come from a family of actors, and sometimes there have been families that grow you up as an actor, but this wasn't my situation. It's very important to find your own way because it's something you then have to confront yourself.”
“When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!”
“The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.”
“The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.”
“Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.”

Source : Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.693, Simon and Schuster
“Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.”
“From the rocket we can see the huge sphere of the planet in one or another phase of the Moon. We can see how the sphere rotates, and how within a few hours it shows all its sides successively ... and we shall observe various points on the surface of the Earth for several minutes and from different sides very closely. This picture is so majestic, attractive and infinitely varied that I wish with all my soul that you and I could see it.”

Source : "The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth". Book by William E. Burrows (p. 147), July 10, 2007.
“I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.”

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