As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.- John Lennon

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I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star. ― Sojourner Truth

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You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again. ― Sojourner Truth

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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

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Children, who made your skin white? Was it not God? Who made mine black? Was it not the same God? Am I to blame, therefore, because my skin is black?...Does not God love coloured children as well as white children? And did not the same Saviour die to save the one as well as the other? ― Sojourner Truth

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I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. --bell hooks ― bh

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Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

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If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it. ― Sojourner Truth

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It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. - Deng Xiaoping

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A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence. ― Mandy Hale

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