“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author
Source: The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author
Source: The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Books, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
Source: When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977) Nigerian writer
Source: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/15-quotes-from-chimamanda-adichie-that-have-change/
Jane Austen book Persuasion
Variant: But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.
Source: Persuasion
“My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.”
Jonathan Carroll (1949) novelist, short story writer
Sojourner Truth (1797–1883) African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist
Ain't I a Woman? Speech (1851)
Context: That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man — when I could get it — and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
“I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say "yes women can".”
Dilma Rousseff (1947) 36th President of Brazil
“Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”
Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches