Last year we gave our gal pal Judge Judy some screen time. "I'm here because I'm smart, not because I'm young and beautiful ... although I am."
This year's quote has a lot to live up to. I just got the list board members will vote from and I thought I'd share some of my favorites. (Feel free to comment with your insights or your own favorite quotes about the law, achieving your goals, women, feminism, or to help me balance this discussion out a little, men.):
"Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex" - Abigail Adams
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank, writer
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads." -Erica Jong, author
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"A woman's work is never done." - Proverb
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." -Helen Keller (editor's note: can't you just see this in vinyl?)
"Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness." - Susan Faludi, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist
"Women are the real architects of society." -Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." –Mother Theresa
"We are all pencils in the hand of God writing love letters to the world." -Mother Theresa
"There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers." - Susan B. Anthony
"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?" -Eleanor Roosevelt
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I vote fo rthe last one by Ms. Roosevelt, about preventing misery rather. That's the one that really spoke to me...it's powerful, non cliche and has not victimy after
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