For International Women’s Day, I have collected quotes and images throughout history which celebrate the vibrant life of women, of women fully alive!
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Margaret Fuller
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcott
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For what is done or learned by on class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. Elizabeth Blackwell (The first woman in the U.S. to become a physician)
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller
Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it’s the most exquisite love of all. Maggie Gallagher
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Rudyard Kipling
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. E. M. Forster
