Witty Women: Quote of the Week

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
— Indira Gandhi

Witty Women: Quote of the Week

From a first class lady who left us today -

"You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way."
- Lena Horne

Witty Women: Quote of the Week

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. 

Luckily, this is not difficult. 

- Charlotte Whitton

Witty Women: Quote of the Week

"I am not half as patient with old women 

now that I am one."

- Emily Carr

Witty Women: Quote of the Week

Don't agonize, organize.
– Florynce Kennedy
(American civil rights and feminist activist)

Witty Women: Quote of the Week

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."
-Mother Teresa

Witty Women: Quote of the Week

"Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up that's all."
- Joan Jett

Witty Women: Quote of the Week

"I've been a man many times. That's what I'm trying to atone for now."

- Helen Reddy, apparent believer in reincarnation

Witty Women: Quote of the Week

"No matter the fight, don't be ladylike!
God almighty made women, and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies. "

- Mother Jones, labor organizer and co-founder of IWW

Witty Women: Quote of the Week

"Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy,
and don't be afraid to hit the ball."

- Billie Jean King, tennis ace and advocate for women in sports

Witty Women: Quote of the Week

"You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older."
- Lillian Gish

Witty Women: Quote of the Week

"Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time."
- Tallulah Bankhead

Wiity Women: Quote of the Week

“Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It’s about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.”
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

And hey, speaking of girls and gold medals how about those U.S. female Olympians this year? Already Hannah Kearney (pictured above) became the first person on the U.S. team to get a gold medal, in women's moguls freestyle skiing, and we've been tipped that the U.S. women's snowboarding and hockey teams are heavily favored as well. Hurrah for growing equity in sports!

Witty Women: Quote of the Week

"You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy."
- Marian Wright Edelman (founder of the Children's Defense Fund)

Quote of the Week - Martin Luther King Jr

Today we remember the greatest American civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Witty Women: Quote Of The Week

"Always be smarter than the people who hire you."
- Lena Horne

Witty Women: Quote of the Week

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra,
but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
- Dolly Parton

Witty Women: Quote of the Week

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way.
If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.
~Elizabeth Janeway

Witty Women: Quote of the Week

It starts when you sink in his arms and ends with your arms in his sink.
~Author Unknown

Witty Women: Quote of the Week

Whether women are better than men I cannot say -
but I can say they are certainly no worse.
~Golda Meir