Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[UofMfan]

“If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.” ~ Paulo Coelho (Aleph)

[Kobi]

Robin Morgan is known for her feminist activism and writing. She is a poet, a novelist, and has also written non-fiction. Several of her anthologies are classics of feminism, including Sisterhood Is Powerful.

Robin Morgan served as an editor of Ms. Magazine 1990-1993 after serving as a contributing editor for many years.

Robin Morgan, as a child actress, had a radio show and appeared on the television series I Remember Mama.

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• It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

• We are the women men warned us about.

• And let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism -- the lie that there can be such a thing as "men's liberation groups." Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a "threatening" characteristic shared by the latter group -- skin color or sex or age, etc.

• In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men -- but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

• [A] legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women —- with men relating to that the best they can.

[InkSlinger]

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus

[Nomad]

"....there is a limit circumscribed to your time - if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return." --Marcus Aurelius

[Jesse]

“Decide That You Want It More Than You Are Afraid of It” - Bill Cosby

[Kätzchen]

"But nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her.
"They don't bite anybody except in self-defense..."

-- Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren).

[JAGG]

Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattller. -Latin Proverb


The timid are frightened before danger, a coward during, the brave are frightened afterwards.- Jean Paul Richter

In doing what we ought, we deserve no praise. -Latin Proverb

[Spirit Dancer]

Your treasure is deep within you: it holds all you need.
Hui-Hai

[Spirit Dancer]

An error is not a mistake until you refuse to fix it.
Anonymous

[Kobi]

Susan Faludi is a journalist who wrote Backlash:The Undeclared War against Women, 1991, which argued that feminism and women's rights were undermined by the media and corporations -- just as the previous wave of feminism lost ground to a previous version of backlash, convincing women that feminism and not inequality was the source of their frustration.

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• Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves -- instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.

• The internal qualities once said to embody manhood - sure footedness, inner strength, confidence of purpose -- are merchandised to men to enhance their manliness. What passes for masculinity is being extracted and sold back to men. Literally in the case of Viagra.

• The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful.

• As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

[InkSlinger]

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” ― Madeleine L'Engle

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?” ― John Lennon

[SugarFemme]

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”

[nycfem]

This is from Lesbian Connection, the Notes from Our Elders (65+) section:

"Don't be afraid of being alone because ultimately, having nothing is better than having trouble. If you feel lonely, remind yourself that when you have nothing, you can put something good there. But when you have trouble, it's all you deal with."

-Toni Armstrong, 86-year-old lesbian

[JAGG]

Originally Posted by nycfembbw

This is from Lesbian Connection, the Notes from Our Elders (65+) section:

"Don't be afraid of being alone because ultimately, having nothing is better than having trouble. If you feel lonely, remind yourself that when you have nothing, you can put something good there. But when you have trouble, it's all you deal with."

-Toni Armstrong, 86-year-old lesbian

So true. Thanks for sharing .

[JAGG]

Whatever is good to know, is difficult to learn. -Greek Proverb

A person who who commits inhuman acts, invariably excuses himself by saying, " I'm only human after all." - Sydney J. Harris

99% of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.-George Washington Carver

[Medusa]

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”

--Neil Gaiman

[gaea]

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned....

i dont know who said it however i like it...

[Hollylane]

Originally Posted by nycfembbw

This is from Lesbian Connection, the Notes from Our Elders (65+) section:

"Don't be afraid of being alone because ultimately, having nothing is better than having trouble. If you feel lonely, remind yourself that when you have nothing, you can put something good there. But when you have trouble, it's all you deal with."

-Toni Armstrong, 86-year-old lesbian

This is absolutely true, in my opinion... Thank you for posting this!

[Jesse]

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

[Jesse]

Another personal favorite of mine from cummings;

...here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)