Jane Fonda

“It’s a toxic desire to try to be perfect. I realized later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.”

Jane Fonda
Oscar-winning actress

Cathie Beck

"I didn’t know that people come into our lives, and sometimes, if we’re terribly lucky, we get the chance to love them, that sometimes they stay, that sometimes you can, truly, depend on them."

Cathie Beck
Denver-based journalist and creative writer.
Above is an excerpt from her memoir "Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship"
Less than a year after she self-published, it was picked up by Hyperion

Moms Mabley

"A woman's a woman until the day she dies, but a man's only a man as long as he can."

Jackie "Moms" Mabley

Standup comedian who tackled edgy topics

Jill Clayburg

"What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older."

Jill Clayburg

Stage, TV and Oscar-nominated film actress

Alice Sommer

“Music is God. In difficult times you feel it especially.”

Alice Sommer

The oldest living Holocaust survivor who will celebrate her 107th birthday in November. A concert pianist in Prague, at age 39 she and her young son were deported to Theresienstadt, a concentration camp where artists and musicians were allowed to continue their art for propaganda purposes. She continues to play the piano every day… (to view inspiring 12 minute video, click here)

“I never hate. Hatred only brings hatred”

Anne-Marie Goetz

“Resolution 1325 highlights a very serious justice problem, the problem of exclusion. But it also offers a practical solution to the difficulty of making peace stick in many conflicts. Engaging a broader set of actors in peace talks can make them more legitimate and sustainable. Women are an incredibly important set of peacemakers and central to rebuilding society.”

Anne-Marie Goetz

UNIFEM’s Chief Advisor on Governance, Peace and Security. In a recent interview, she underlined the importance of mobilizing around the 10th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. If fully implemented, the resolution could dramatically speed up efforts to stop sexual violence

Jane Austen

“Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?”

Jane Austen
English novelist of romantic fiction