Feminist Friday Quotes

#1. Don't use yesterday's state of mind, to make today's decision.

C. Nzingha Smith

#2. Don't be impatient with yourself. Just be in awe.

Pat Rodegast

#3. Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another
physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.

Toni Morrison

#4. We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

Thomas Carlyle

#5. Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#6. Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.

John Quincy Adams

#7. I'm telling you that the cure is the disease. The main source of the illness in this world is the doctor's own illness; his compulsion to try to cure and his fraudulent belief that he can.

Samuel Shem

#8. Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.

Tullian Tchividjian

#9. Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples.

Pope Benedict XVI

#10. Twitter can be incredibly valuable as an open communications mechanism, but if you close too many things down too quickly, if you think about it too short-sightedly, you could easily do a lot of damage to that ecosystem.

Mike McCue

#11. I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

Nancy Friday

#12. I would say my return to my faith is - it's a very personal thing.

Jim Gaffigan

#13. Finding #2: Those with the growth mindset found setbacks motivating. They're informative. They're a wake-up call.

Carol S. Dweck

#14. The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing parties or mounts an independent bid.

Ron Fournier

#15. May today be the best birthday of your life, I give you my heart as the most precious gift I can give you and I promise I always will love you.

Auliq Ice

#16. Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.

Holly Near