Wit and Wisdom

There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.
~ Dorothy Parker

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

Well-behaved women rarely make history.
~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.
~ Gloria Steinem

I didn’t belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I’d known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.
~ Bette Midler

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
~ Coco Chanel

If you’re creating anything at all, it’s really dangerous to care about what people think.
~ Kristen Wiig

You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.
~ Mary Tyler Moore

It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
~ Dorothy Parker

I feel seen.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
~ Tina Fey

Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backward and in high heels.
~ Ann Richards

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.
~ Madeleine Albright

I’m thinking of the 53% of white women voters who cast their votes for the Toxic Tangerine Twit. What the fucking fuck were you thinking?! He’s a rapist, pedophile, and dangerous pathological idiot, fer fuck’s sake!

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
~ Angela Davis

It’s good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.
~ Margaret Cho

TRUTH!

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
~ Zora Neale Hurston

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
~ Rosa Parks

This is, basically, how I face my myriad neurosurgeries.  My goal is survival with as few nasty NF2 side effects as possible. I’m not particularly brave—my mind’s just made up and I’m determined.

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.
~ Wilma Mankiller

If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?
~ Ru Paul

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
~ Albert Einstein

A people is not defeated until the hearts of its women are on the ground.
~ Cheyenne saying