1. “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”

2. “Some people are old when they're 18 and some people are young when they're 90. You can't define people by whatever society determines as their age. Time is a concept that human beings created.”

3. “I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”

4. “Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.”

5. “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

6. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”

7. “Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.”

8. ''I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.''

9. "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

10. “I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”

11. “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

12. "I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak."

13. “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."

14. “‘Very well,’ I said angrily, ‘Start the man, and I'll start the same day for some other newspaper and beat him.’”

15. "Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation…none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men."

16. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”

17. “You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.”

18. “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”

19. “Love is anterior to Life / Posterior to Death / Initial of Creation, and / The Exponent of Earth.”

20. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”