Cheers and Jeers is a weekday coping mechanism from the great state of Maine.
Happy Middle of International Women’s Week
Our annual salute to those among us who really should be in charge of everything. [Sigh.] Maybe one day...
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal."
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Rights and Sentiments (1845)
“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union” ... “Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.”
—Susan B. Anthony
"When I'm sometimes asked 'When will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]?' and I say 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that."
—Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (We are currently up to four.)
"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation."
"There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish." —Michelle Obama
—Abigail Adams [Note: This is one particular Capitol insurrection I would support. —BiPM]
“The word’s out: I’m a woman, and I’m going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. I’ll go out and talk to people about what’s happening to their families, and when I do that, I’m a mother, I’m a grandmother.”
—Elizabeth Warren
"Women might start a rumor, but not a war.”
—Marga Gomez
“At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.”
—Shirley Chisholm
“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not too difficult.”
—Canadian feminist and former Ottawa Mayor Carlotte Whitton
"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
—Maya Angelou
Long may your pussyhats wave.
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