“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 –

“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

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

Shirley Chisholm

1924 – 2005

“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 –

“Don’t drown in self-pity. Swish your feet a little, then get out and play”.”

Kay Yow

1942 – 2009

“Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected. ”

Alice Paul

1885 – 1977

“You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.”

Andrea Jung

1959 –

“No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.”

Betty Friedan

1921 – 2006

“Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.”

Mary Church Terrell

1863 – 1954

“Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.”

Margaret Sanger

1879 – 1966