“The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind – that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. I have felt bound by a solemn obligation to do what I could – if I didn’t at least try I could never be happy again in nature. But now I can believe that I have at least helped a little.”

Rachel Carson

1907 – 1964

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”

Margaret Mead

1901 – 1979

“If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man,
it's authoritative.”

Barbara Walters

1929 –

“It's not just enough to swing at the ball.
You’ve got to loosen your girdle and let it rip.”

Mildred Ella “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias

1911 – 1956

“I had this dream when I was really young that I could be whoever I wanted to be no matter who didn’t believe in me.”

Lady Gaga

1986 –

“Institutions should serve people, but unfortunately it’s often the other way around. People give their allegiance to an institution, and they become prisoners of habits, practices, and rules that make them ultimately ineffectual.”

Mathilde Krim

1926 –

“When I sing, I don’t want them to see that my face is black. I don’t want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see
my soul. And that is colorless.”

Marian Anderson

1897 – 1993

“No one can avoid aging, but
aging productively is something else.”

Katherine Graham

1917 – 2001

“We’re two different people, two different players with different lives . . . . But we support each other.”

Venus & Serena Williams

V-1980 - S-1981 –

“I can't imagine that my children would have
fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.”

Cecile Richards

1959 –

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

Carrie Chapman Catt

1859 – 1947