Good quotation for IWD?

[MadamePewter]

As it says, really

Let's start at the beginning...



"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."

Mary Wollstonecraft

While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,
The fate of Empires and the fall of Kings;
While quacks of State must each produce his plan,
And even children lisp the Rights of Man;
Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention,
The Rights of Woman merit some attention.

Robert Burns

(I should say that the rather wonderful Lucy Blackburn Hunter used this at the Scottish parliament protest yesterday, bringing it to my attention)

I have sometimes thought… that the sole avenue and means of a reconstructed sociology depended, primarily, on a new birth, elevation, expansion, invigoration of woman… Great, great, indeed, far greater than they know, is the sphere of women.
[…]
Of all dangers to a nation, as things exist in our day, there can be no greater one than having certain portions of the people set off from the rest by a line drawn — they not privileged as others, but degraded, humiliated, made of no account.
Walt Whitman

"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive."

Audre Lorde

Maya Angelou.

'The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spider web of the micrometer.
Maria Mitchell (1818 -1889 ) American astronomer and mathematician.

Thank you, all. And @Imnobody4 I’ve learned something now: had to google micrometer 😃

We need to teach our daughters to be somebodies, instead of somebody's.

I use it every year with my Italian students.