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
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“The road to success is always under construction.”
-Lilly Tomlin
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
-Maya Angelou
Ok, Ted, “TWELVE quotations by strong, smart, sassy women”
But seriously, these are great additions to the list. Thanks!
Made me laugh and made me think. Here’s my contribution. From Erika Jong: “You take your life in your hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
I, too, was born to swing.