"Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?"

-- Betty Friedan

#Justice Quotes #Social Justice Quotes

“Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power.”
“A great man is one who has not lost the child's heart.”
“I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey - 'Here's the lady who brought the roses' vs. 'Here's the lung cancer.'”
“Tenderness and Rot Tenderness and rot share a border. And rot is an aggressive neighbor whose iridescence keeps creeping over. No lessons can be drawn from this however. One is not two countries. One is not meat corrupting. It is important to stay sweet and loving.”

Source : Kay Ryan (2007). “The Niagara River: Poems”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Sometimes you just have to be by yourself, you need a little space and time.”
“A good threat is worth a thousand tests.”

Source : Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
“Iâ€™m not a fan of â€˜write what you know.â€™ If you donâ€™t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing â€˜The Year of Living Biblically.â€™ That was kind of the point â€“ to learn.”
“I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.”

Source : Interview with Kimberly Gadette, www.oregonlive.com. May 18, 2011.

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