Lucile Aurore Dupin

"Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it."

 

Lucile Aurore Dupin

French novelist and memoirist, pseudonym George Sand

Harriet Rubin

"Freedom is actually a bigger game than power.
Power is about what you can control.
Freedom is about what you can unleash.” 

Harriet Rubin

author

Raicho Hiratsuka

" Women, please let your own sun, 
your concentrated energy, 
your own submerged authentic vital power
shine out from you.
We are no longer the moon, Today we are truly the sun,
We will build shining golden cathedrals
at the top of crystal mountains, 
East of the Land of the Rising Sun.
Women, when you paint your own portrait,
do not forget to put the golden dome at
the top of your head."

Raicho Hiratsuka 

writer, journalist, political activist and pioneering Japanese feminist

(From Women's Manifesto 1911 translated by Mayumi Oda)

Christine Baranski

"I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in."

Christine Baranski

stage, screen and Emmy-winning TV actress