Today is Cesar Chavez Day. I hope you will join me in remember the importance of his work.
“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.” - Cesar Chavez
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." - Diane Ackerman
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Gandhi
To be nobody - but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting." - e.e. cummings
"The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The wicked leader is he whom the people despise. The good leader is he whom the people revere. The great leader is he of whom the people say, "We did it ourselves." - Lao Tzu
"The illiterate of the year 2000 will not be someone who cannot read or write, but someone who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Alvin Toffler, writing in the 1970s.
"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Nelson Mandela
"Women constitute half the world's population, perform nearly two-thirds of its work hours, receive one-tenth of the world's income and own less than one-hundredth of the world's property." - United Nations report, 1980
I love the Starbuck's "make your own" tumblers, and I am always looking for new ways to use them. I have given them as graduate presents with personal photos. I have made collages of family pictures. And, I have used colorful scrapbook paper. Recently, I found one of my daughter's books that had beautiful illustrations but several pages were missing. I used one of the remaining pages to create this whimsical tumbler!
"Success will come to you in direct proportion to the number of times you are willing to risk failure." - EDGE Keynote
"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things." - Plato
"If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances." - John Sculley
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a poor memory." - Albert Schweitzer
"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers." - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
"If someone told you about a fabulous mutual fund you could invest in, and said that it might or might not give you any interest and that there was a 50 percent chance you could lose your whole investment, you know for a fact that you would decline the offer. So why are women rushing towards marriage with the same purposeful abandon as kamikaze pilots in World War II?" - Mama Gena (on why women need to re-evaluate the traditional roles in marriage)
"Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women." - Elsa Schiaparelli
"Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think that she's attractive to the opposite sex." - Earl Wilson
"People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs." - Unknown
"Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier." - H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
March is National Women's History Month, so I have decided to post my favorite quotes about being a woman. I hope that you will see the humor in many of these quotes. Humor is necessary to deal with some of the intense issues that surround feminism and gender equity.
"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult." - Charlotte Whitton, 1963
"You have the power to create. Your power is so strong that whatever you believe comes true. You create yourself, whatever you believe you are. You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself. Your whole reality, everything you believe, is your creation. " - Don Miguel Ruiz
"You can't do all the good in the world. But the world needs all the good you can do." - Anonymous
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." - Antoine de Saint Exupéry
"Never lose the opportunity to see anything that is beautiful." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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