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Where the women go, the culture goes.
Sep 10, 2025
I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.
Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.
Failure is impossible.
The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.
If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.
Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw into gold, conjuring the world of Ptolemaic Egypt in full vibrant color, and returning the voice of one of the most powerful, fascinating, and maligned women in history. Cleopatra is impossible to put down.
People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions, including five centuries of almost unimaginable terrorism under Europe's Inquisition and the unthinkably sadistic legal murder of nearly nine million women. History doesn't say much very good about God.
Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at one time or another, failed at something. Often repeatedly, and discouragingly. But each failure is nothing more than a brick in the wall that forms the foundation of our success. We can't forget that.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
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.
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.
... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies. Moreover, a great many distinguished women in history, including several Catholic saints, were also sealed to Joseph Smith in Utah. I saw these astonishing lists in the Latter-day Saint Genealogical Archives in Salt Lake City in 1944.
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
I didn't see many female politicians on TV. I didn't see women in history textbooks, so I did geography, and art and English literature. But I know I must have been affected by not seeing women represented.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.