Billie Holiday

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
—Billie Holiday

Never limit yourself because of others’ imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
— Mae Jemison, astronaut

I know God will not give me anything I cannot handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.
— Mother Theresa

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.
— Ruth Benedict

My grandfather told me there were two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who take the credit. You should try to be in the first group because there is less competition.
— Indira Gandhi

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
—Sue Grafton

I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
—Zora Neale Hurston

Success didn’t spoil me; I’ve always been insufferable.
—Fran Liebowitz

I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.
— Inez Mulholland, suffragist

I was born to swing. That’s all.
— Lil Hardin Armstrong, bandleader, 1930s