Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
- First lady
If particular care and attention is not paid
to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not
hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
Marian Anderson
(1897 - 1993) Singer
As long as you keep a person down,
some part of you has to be down there to hold the person down, so
it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Susan
B. Anthony (1820 - 1906) Suffragist
Men, their rights, and nothing more;
women, their rights, and nothing less.

Nellie
Bly (1864 - 1922) Investigative
journalist
Energy rightly applied can accomplish
anything

Rachel
Carson (1907 - 1964) Marine
biologist and author
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen,
among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary
of life.

Amelia
Earhart (1897-1937) Aviator
I want to do it because I want to
do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail,
their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Ella
Fitzgerald (1917 - 1996) Jazz
singer
Just don't give up trying to do what
you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't
think you can go wrong.

Helen
Hayes (1900-1993) Actress
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers,
and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in
joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope;
they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves.

Julia
Ward Howe (1819 - 1910) Social
reformer and author
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the
coming of the Lord. He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes
of wrath are stored.

Zora
Neale Hurston (1901-1960)Anthropologist
and author
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against,
but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any
deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

Mary
Harris Jones (1830 - 1930) Labor
organizer
If they want to hang me, let them.
And on the scaffold I will shout "Freedom for the working class!"

Lucretia
Mott (1793
- 1880) Feminist and abolitionist
I have no idea of submitting tamely
to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose
it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate
of passivity.

Annie
Oakley (1860 - 1926) Markswoman
I can truthfully say I know of no
other recreation that will do so much toward keeping a woman in good
health and perfect figure than a few hours spent occasionally at trap
shooting.

Harriet
Tubman (1820-1913) Slave, liberator
of slaves and spy
I was the conductor of the Underground
Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't
say - I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

"Babe"
Didrikson Zaharias (1914 - 1956)
Athlete
Loosen your girdle and let 'er fly!

Quote Sources:
Andrews, Robert et al. Columbia
World of Quotations. NY: Columbia University Press, 1996. <http://www.bartleby.com>.
Lewis, Jone Johnson. Women's Voices: Quotations
by Women. 2003. <http://womenshistory.about.com/library/qu/blqulist.htm>.
Warner, Carolyn. The Last Word. Englewood
Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1992.
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