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

Cecile Richards

1959 –

“By choosing a woman to run for our nation’s second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all Americans. There are no doors we cannot unlock.”

Geraldine Ferraro

1935 – 2011

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

Rosa Parks

1913 – 2005

“I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”

Georgia O’Keeffe

1887 – 1986

“When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.”

Shirley Chisholm

1924 – 2005

“I’m not funny. What I am is brave.”

Lucille Ball

1911 – 1989

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

Margaret Mead

1901 – 1979

“Sitting up there on the fuselage. That little girl will do more than a male will do.”

Rosie The Riveter

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“I wear my pink proudly and I hope you do, too.  It isn’t soft and fluffy.  Pink is passionate and bold.  Think of it as your membership card in a global community working to end a disease that will kill almost half a million people this year.”

Nancy Brinker

1946 –

“If you surrender to the wind you can ride it.”

Toni Morrison

1931 –

“There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet.”

Zora Neale Hurston

1891 – 1960