with resonant light:
quotes by women
"But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in... I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all -- it is very tiresome" -- Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (1817)
"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another." --George Eliot (Mary Ann or Marion Evans)
"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." -- Maya Angelou
"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass." -- Maya Angelou
"...the fog is rising" -- Emily Dickinson's last words
"True merit does not depend on the times or on fashion. Those who have no other advantage than courtly manners lose it when they are away from court. But good sense, knowledge, and wisdom make their possessors knowledgeable and beloved in all ages and in all times." -- Madame de Sablé
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton
"Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you." -- Annie Dillard
"There's only one woman I know who could never be a symphony conductor, and that's the Venus de Milo." -- Margaret Hillis (director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
"For most of history, anonymous was a woman." -- Virginia Woolf
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother. " -- Jane Goodall
"Rosa Parks, queen mother of the revolution. Sometimes you have to sit down to stand up for yourself. Talking and walking quietly, but making a noise heard around the world." -- Marybelle Moore, high school student (1996)
