Favorite Quotations

[Lumière]

“Who will mind the baby”  cried one of our public men, in great agony of spirit, “when the mother goes to vote?” . 
One woman replied that she thought she could get the person that minded it when she went to pay her taxes –
which seemed to be a fairly reasonable proposition.

Nellie McClung -  Canadian Feminist

[Lumière]

“We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.”

~ Eva Burrows

[Lynne]

"If we're all alone, we're all together in that too."

--Patricia, as played by Kathy Bates in P.S. I LOVE YOU

[Lynne]

"Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets."

--Paul Tournier

[Brown Eyes]

Remarkable quotations by Abigail Adams (1744-1818)- First Lady of the United States (1797-1801)

• Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.

• Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

• 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.

• It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.


• Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

[Lumière]

You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad;
you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else;
only you're unexplained as yet -- you've not got your niche in creation.

~ Radclyffe Hall in The Well of Loneliness, 1928

[Ellemeno]

You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad;
you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else;
only you're unexplained as yet -- you've not got your niche in creation.
~ Radclyffe Hall in The Well of Loneliness, 1928

  So sad.  But somehow empowering and hopeful.

[Lumière]

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

~ Maya Angelou

[serious crayons]

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

~ Maya Angelou

Good one, Maya and Milli!

[Lumière]

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself
-- whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc.--
because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
But once you do that, then you've lost because then you become acquired or bought by that particular essence of yourself,
and you've denied yourself all of the energy that it takes to keep all those others in jail.
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

~ Audre Lorde