Quote of the Day -- Kavita Ramdas

Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.

-- Kavita Ramdas

Quote of the Day -- Rebecca West

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

-- Rebecca West

Quote of the Day -- Sonia Sotomayor

In every position that I've been in, there have been naysayers who don't believe I'm qualified or who don't believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong. 

 -- Sonia Sotomayor

Quote of the Day -- Aija Mayrock

You were not born to please, you were brought here to disrupt, awaken, and speak truth, to ease the pain scattered around and so when you are told to quiet down, I hope you grow louder.

You are an entire symphony that needs no applause.

--  Aija Mayrock, Dear Girl

Quote of the Day -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The problem is not merely one of Woman and Career, Woman and the Home, Woman and Independence. It is more basically: how to remain whole in the midst of the distractions of life; how to remain balanced, no matter what centrifugal forces tend to pull one off center; how to remain strong, no matter what shocks come in the periphery and tend to crack the hub of the wheel.

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Quote of the Day -- Joan Chittister

The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life... the resurrection of the world begins.

-- Joan Chittister

Quote of the Day -- Kamala Harris

There will be a resistance to your ambition. There will be people who say to you, ‘You are out of your lane,’ because they are burdened by only having the capacity to see what has always been instead of what can be. But don’t you let that burden you.

-- Kamala Harris

Quote of the Day -- Albert Ellis

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

 -- Albert Ellis

Quote of the Day -- Clara Barton

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

-- Clara Barton

Quote of the Day -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. 

-- Ruth Bader Ginbsurg

 1933 - 2020 RIP

Quote of the Day -- GatesNotes

The data is unequivocal: No matter where in the world you are born, your life will be harder if you are born a girl. 

 -- Melinda Gates in GatesNotes 2020 Annual Letter

Quote of the Day -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Quote of the Day -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Quote of the Day -- Melinda Gates

With a new focus on women’s economic empowerment, connecting women to markets, making sure they have access to financial services, and empowering them to help themselves, we aim to help tear down the barriers that keep half the world from leading a full life.
 
We’ll spend $170 million over the next four years to help women exercise their economic power, which the evidence suggests is among the most promising entry points for gender equality. Simply put when money flows into the hands of women who have the authority to use it, everything changes.

-- Melinda Gates

Quote of the Day -- Virginia Woolf

Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

-- Virginia Woolf

Quote of the Day -- Nancy Pelosi

Every morning, I don a suit of armor, eat nails for breakfast, and go fight inequality.

-- Nancy Pelosi

Quote of the Day -- Ellen Degeneres

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

-- Ellen Degeneres

Quote of the Day -- Sue Grafton

If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.

-- Sue Grafton, RIP Dec 28, 2017

Leadership is about making others better as result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence. 

  

-- Harvard Business School as quoted 

by Sheryl Sandberg in Lean In 

(I think you could substitute "Parenting" for leadership,

 and it would also work.)