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- There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.
- Florynce Kennedy
- Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
- Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906)
- Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
- Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
- You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.
- Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
- But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
- It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946), "The Future" Ch. 5, Essays in Persuasion (1931)
- The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946), The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (13 December 1935)
- My mom is the most famous thing about my video blog. Everyone likes moms. People enjoy watching people's family.
- Schlomo Rabinowitz, How To Add Video To Your Blog, SXSW 2006
- A lot of the things we've done have been common sense. You do what makes sense to you and make moves that you are comfortable making. Everything is having fun in mind.
- Jeffrey Kalmikoff, Designing for Community with Zero-Advertising Brands, SXSW 2006
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