INSPIRING QUOTES FROM WOMEN AUTHORS

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
― Rosa Luxemburg

“Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.”
― Rosa Luxemburg

“Don't forget, as busy as you may be, to quickly raise your head and cast a glance at those great silver clouds and that silent blue ocean in which they are swimming...take notice of the resplendence and glory that overlie this day...because this day will never, ever come again! This day is a gift to you like a rose in full bloom, lying at your feet, waiting for you to pick it up and press it to your lips.”
― Rosa Luxemburg

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

 “As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.””
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

 “I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”
- Simone Weil

“Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.”
- Simone Weil

"Writing by hand on paper is becoming a revolutionary act. Reading a physical book is becoming a revolutionary act. Protecting the books in our libraries, the arts and humanities in our colleges and universities is becoming a revolutionary act. Doing things with warm hand to warm hand, face to face, without photographing them, posting them, is becoming a revolutionary act.

Those two original digital devices you have at the end of your forearms are the means of resistance. As is eye-contact with the world instead of staring at your phone….The most valuable thing you have is your attention. It’s also the most valuable condition for survival of the non-digital world."
~ Lynda Barry

 "Don't sit down in the middle of the woods. If you're lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page. Pivots are made in the living of life itself. Micro-pivots and lifelong creative evolutions are the grist for our mill and become our own history, our own art.”
- Margaret Atwood 

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
- Anne Frank