/* Initialization */
var MINUTE = 60 * 1000;
var HOUR = MINUTE * 60;
var DAY = HOUR * 24;
var WEEK = DAY * 7;

var today = new Date();
var origin = new Date(2004, 1, 08);
var weeks_since = Math.floor( (today - origin) / WEEK );

number = 0;

/* Format: quote[number] = "Quote/Author" */
quote = new Array
quote[number++] = "Great necessities call out great virtues./Abigail Adams"
quote[number++] = "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./Abigail Adams"
quote[number++] = "After all, God made man and then said: I can do better than that--and made woman./Adela Rogers St. John"
quote[number++] = "The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling./Alice Stone Blackwell"
quote[number++] = "A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent./Alice Stone Blackwell"
quote[number++] = "Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both./Alice Stone Blackwell"
quote[number++] = "It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.  I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower is to bloom./Alice Walker"
quote[number++] = "It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it./Alice Walker"
quote[number++] = "No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow./Alice Walker"
quote[number++] = "No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you./Althea Gibson"
quote[number++] = "Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze./Amanda Cross"
quote[number++] = "Adventure is worthwhile in itself./Amelia Earhart"
quote[number++] = "I want to do it because I want to do it.  Women must try to do things as men have tried.  When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others./Amelia Earhart"
quote[number++] = "How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself./Anais Nin"
quote[number++] = "Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky./Anais Nin"
quote[number++] = "Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage./Anais Nin"
quote[number++] = "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are./Anais Nin"
quote[number++] = "Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training./Anna Freud"
quote[number++] = "Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish./Anna Bradstreet"
quote[number++] = "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome./Anna Bradstreet"
quote[number++] = "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world./Anne Frank"
quote[number++] = "Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction./Anne Frank"
quote[number++] = "We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same./Anne Frank"
quote[number++] = "Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?/Anne Frank"
quote[number++] = "Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after./Anne Morrow Lindbergh"
quote[number++] = "I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea./Anne Morrow Lindbergh"
quote[number++] = "One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach./Anne Morrow Lindbergh"
quote[number++] = "The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere./Anne Morrow Lindbergh"
quote[number++] = "Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists./Antonia Fraser"
quote[number++] = "Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge./Audre Lorde"
quote[number++] = "The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference./Audre Lorde"
quote[number++] = "When I care to be powerful -- to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid./Audre Lorde"
quote[number++] = "Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today./Ayn Rand"
quote[number++] = "Honor is self-esteem made visible in action./Ayn Rand"
quote[number++] = "Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president' s spouse. I wish him well!/Barbara Bush"
quote[number++] = "Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that./Barbara Bush"
quote[number++] = "Get involved in some of the big ideas of your time./Barbara Bush"
quote[number++] = "Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others./Barbara Bush"
quote[number++] = "If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities./Barbara Bush"
quote[number++] = "Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood. But everyone has something to give./Barbara Bush"
quote[number++] = "The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream./Barbara Bush"
quote[number++] = "Love is a choice you make from moment to moment./Barbara De Angelis"
quote[number++] = "I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberators—they fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?/Barbara Streisand"
quote[number++] = "If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege./Bell Hooks"
quote[number++] = "Love is an action, never simply a feeling./Bell Hooks"
quote[number++] = "The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes./Bella Abzug"
quote[number++] = "Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over./Bella Abzug"
quote[number++] = "The individual woman is required ... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition./Bernice Johnson Reagon"
quote[number++] = "There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up./Bernice Johnson Reagon"
quote[number++] = "Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work./Bette Davis"
quote[number++] = "If you want a thing well done, get a couple of old broads to do it./Bette Davis"
quote[number++] = "Old age is no place for sissies./Bette Davis"
quote[number++] = "The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with./Bette Davis"
quote[number++] = "A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she adjust to prejudice and discrimination./Betty Friedan"
quote[number++] = "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try./Beverly Sills"
quote[number++] = "Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese./Billie Burke"
quote[number++] = "If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothin'./Billie Holiday"
quote[number++] = "Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose./Billie Holday"
quote[number++] = "You have to leave room in life to dream./Buffy Sainte-Marie"
quote[number++] = "Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks./Charlotte Bronte"
quote[number++] = "It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshiping backwards./Charlotte Perkins Gilman",
quote[number++] = "The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work./Charlotte Perkins Gilman"
quote[number++] = "There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver./Charlotte Perkins Gilman"
quote[number++] = "Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult./Charlotte Whitton"
quote[number++] = "Whatever your goal in life , be proud of every day that you are able to work in that direction./Chris Evert"
quote[number++] = "A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway./Christi Mary Warner"
quote[number++] = "Fashion is made to become unfashionable./Coco Chanel"
quote[number++] = "Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them./Coco Chanel"
quote[number++] = "Boredom helps one to make decisions./Colette"
quote[number++] = "What a wonderful life I've had!  I only wish I'd realized it sooner./Colette"
quote[number++] = "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm./Colette"
quote[number++] = "Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun./Colleen C. Barrett"
quote[number++] = "Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade./Constance Baker Motley"
quote[number++] = "I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life./Cory Aquino"
quote[number++] = "The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch./Cory Aquino"
quote[number++] = "I am not eccentric.  It's just that I am more alive than most people.  I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish./Dame Edith Sitwell"
quote[number++] = "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./Dame Rebecca West"
quote[number++] = "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees./Delores Ibarruri"
quote[number++] = "My favorite thing is to go where I've never been./Diane Arbus"
quote[number++] = "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain./Dolly Parton"
quote[number++] = "Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing./Doris Lessing"
quote[number++] = "I think even lying on my bed I can still do something./Dorothea Dix"
quote[number++] = "In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do./Dorothea Dix"
quote[number++] = "People say, 'What is the sense of our small effort?' They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time./Dorothy Day"
quote[number++] = "The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?/Dorothy Day"
quote[number++] = "We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all./Dorothy Day"
quote[number++] = "Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words./Dorothy Parker"
quote[number++] = "To be able to be caught up into the world of thought--that is to be educated./Edith Hamilton"
quote[number++] = "A closed mind is a dying mind./Edna Ferber"
quote[number++] = "Failing to plan is planning to fail./Effie Jones"
quote[number++] = "There are two important days in a woman's life – the day she is born and the day she figures out why./Elaine Cannon"
quote[number++] = "If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names./Elaine Gill"
quote[number++] = "There is no reason to repeat bad history./Eleanor Holmes Norton"
quote[number++] = "I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.  Life was meant to be lived.  Curiosity must be kept alive.  One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life./Eleanor Roosevelt"
quote[number++] = "Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent./Eleanor Roosevelt"
quote[number++] = "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams./Eleanor Roosevelt"
quote[number++] = "You must do the things you think you cannot do./Eleanor Roosevelt"
quote[number++] = "I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision./Eleanor Roosevelt"
quote[number++] = "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent./Eleanor Roosevelt"
quote[number++] = "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do./Eleanor Roosevelt"
quote[number++] = "If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled./Elizabeth Blackwell"
quote[number++] = "For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women./Elizabeth Blackwell"
quote[number++] = "I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well./Elizabeth Cady Stanton"
quote[number++] = "Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government./Elizabeth Cady Stanton"
quote[number++] = "The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well./Elizabeth Kübler-Ross"
quote[number++] = "I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime./Elizabeth Kübler-Ross"
quote[number++] = "Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong./Ella Fitzgerald"
quote[number++] = "I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world.  I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another./Ellen Goodman"
quote[number++] = "I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life./Elsa Maxwell"
quote[number++] = "Most rich people are the poorest people I know./Elsa Maxwell"
quote[number++] = "Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores./Elsa Maxwell"
quote[number++] = "Hope is a thing with feathers, That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all./Emily Dickinson"
quote[number++] = "To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else./Emily Dickinson"
quote[number++] = "Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality./Emily Dickinson"
quote[number++] = "The most violent element in society is ignorance./Emma Goldman"
quote[number++] = "The most vital right is the right to love and be loved./Emma Goldman"
quote[number++] = "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't./Erica Jong"
quote[number++] = "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.'/Erma Bombeck"
quote[number++] = "You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself./Ethel Barrymore"
quote[number++] = "You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens./Ethel Barrymore"
quote[number++] = "Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations./Faith Baldwin"
quote[number++] = "Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness./Faith Baldwin"
quote[number++] = "We, too, the children of the earth, have our moon phases all through any year; the darkness, the delivery from darkness, the waxing and waning./Faith Baldwin"
quote[number++] = "Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels./Faith Whittlesey"
quote[number++] = "The only safe ship in a storm is leadership./Faye Wattleton"
quote[number++] = "I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it./Frances Lear"
quote[number++] = "No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence./George Eliot"
quote[number++] = "The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice./George Eliot"
quote[number++] = "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?/George Eliot"
quote[number++] = "There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved./George Sand"
quote[number++] = "We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around./Geraldine Ferraro"
quote[number++] = "When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing./Gerder Lerner"
quote[number++] = "But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'/Gertrude Stein"
quote[number++] = "Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something./Gertrude Stein"
quote[number++] = "Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers./Gertrude Stein"
quote[number++] = "The liberation woman is a person who believes she is as human as a man./Ghada Samman"
quote[number++] = "I wanted a perfect ending.  Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.  Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.  Delicious Ambiguity./Gilda Radner"
quote[number++] = "I met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words./Gloria Steinem"
quote[number++] = "Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one./Gloria Steinem"
quote[number++] = "Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age./Gloria Steinem"
quote[number++] = "In my heart, I think a woman has two choices: either she's a feminist or a masochist./Gloria Steinem"
quote[number++] = "The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn./Gloria Steinem"
quote[number++] = "Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either./Golda Meir"
quote[number++] = "I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome./Golda Meir"
quote[number++] = "A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things./Grace Hopper"
quote[number++] = "Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be./Grandma Moses"
quote[number++] = "Women will not become more empowered merely because we want them to be, but through legislative changes, increased information, and redirection of resources. It would be fatal to overlook this issue./Gro Harlem Brundtland"
quote[number++] = "Women power is a formidable force./Gro Harlem Brundtland"
quote[number++] = "The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose./Hada Bejar"
quote[number++] = "To think and to be fully alive are the same./Hannah Arendt"
quote[number++] = "Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be./Harriet Beecher Stowe"
quote[number++] = "It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done./Harriet Beecher Stowe"
quote[number++] = "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone./Harriet Beecher Stowe"
quote[number++] = "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn./Harriet Beecher Stowe"
quote[number++] = "Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing./Harriet Braiker"
quote[number++] = "I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe./Harriet Martineau"
quote[number++] = "Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare./Harriet Martineau"
quote[number++] = "What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?/Harriet Martineau"
quote[number++] = "You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims./Harriet Woods"
quote[number++] = "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature./Helen Keller"
quote[number++] = "Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content./Helen Keller"
quote[number++] = "I seldom think of my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers./Helen Keller"
quote[number++] = "Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings./Helen Keller"
quote[number++] = "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart./Helen Keller"
quote[number++] = "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us./Helen Keller"
quote[number++] = "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose./Helen Keller"
quote[number++] = "My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition./Indira Gandhi"
quote[number++] = "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist./Indira Gandhi"
quote[number++] = "I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say./Ingrid Bergman"
quote[number++] = "Don't wait for your ship to come in, and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't.  Get going with something small./Irene Kassorla"
quote[number++] = "How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?/Isabel Allende"
quote[number++] = "People do not live nowadays. They get about ten percent out of life./Isadora Duncan"
quote[number++] = "The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept./Isak Dinesen"
quote[number++] = "Achievement is difficult. It requires enormous effort. Those who can work through the struggle are the ones who are going to be successful./Jackie Joyner-Kersee"
quote[number++] = "Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others./Jackie Joyner-Kersee"
quote[number++] = "America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it./Jane Addams"
quote[number++] = "Civilization is a method of living and an attitude of equal respect for all people./Jane Addams"
quote[number++] = "You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do./Jane Fonda"
quote[number++] = "I always have good finishes. You go as hard as you can until the end. You can always rest when it is over./Janet Evans"
quote[number++] = "Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got./Janis Joplin"
quote[number++] = "You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now./Joan Baez"
quote[number++] = "To love means you also trust./Joan Baez"
quote[number++] = "The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live./Joan Borysenko"
quote[number++] = "The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it./Joan Collins"
quote[number++] = "A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success./Joyce Brothers"
quote[number++] = "Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery./Joyce Brothers"
quote[number++] = "No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along./Joyce Brothers"
quote[number++] = "All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you./Judith Crist"
quote[number++] = "I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude./Judith M. Knowlton"
quote[number++] = "A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life--whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms./Julia Child"
quote[number++] = "Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then./Katharine Hepburn"
quote[number++] = "To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?/Katherine Graham"
quote[number++] = "I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing./Katherine Mansfield"
quote[number++] = "Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing in./Katherine Mansfield"
quote[number++] = "None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of out lives./Kathleen Norris"
quote[number++] = "If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?/Kishida Toshiko"
quote[number++] = "Do not do what you would undo if caught./Leah Arendt"
quote[number++] = "Accomplishments have no color./Leontyne Price"
quote[number++] = "Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises./Leontyne Price"
quote[number++] = "If you're not feeling good about you, what you're wearing outside doesn't mean a thing./Leontyne Price"
quote[number++] = "You must learn to say no when something is not right for you./Leontyne Price"
quote[number++] = "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions./Lillian Hellman"
quote[number++] = "Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?/Lillian Hellman"
quote[number++] = "Never be afraid to sit awhile and think./Lorraine Hansberry"
quote[number++] = "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.  I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead./Louisa May Alcott"
quote[number++] = "Resolve to take fate by  the throat and shake a living out of her./Louisa May Alcott"
quote[number++] = "Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary./Louisa May Alcott"
quote[number++] = "Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood./Louisa May Alcott"
quote[number++] = "I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us./Louisa May Alcott"
quote[number++] = "I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us./Louisa May Alcott"
quote[number++] = "I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship./Louisa May Alcott"
quote[number++] = "Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy./Louisa May Alcott"
quote[number++] = "Many argue; not many converse./Louisa May Alcott"
quote[number++] = "Resolve to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her./Louisa May Alcott"
quote[number++] = "A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain./Louise Nevelson"
quote[number++] = "I think all great innovations are built on rejections./Louise Nevelson"
quote[number++] = "Life isn't one straight line. Most of us have to be transplanted, like a tree, before we blossom./Louise Nevelson"
quote[number++] = "What is enough?  Enough is when somebody says Get me the best people you can find and nobody notices when half of them turn out to be women./Louise Renne"
quote[number++] = "The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source./Lucretia Mott"
quote[number++] = "An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves./Lydia Maria Child"
quote[number++] = "...the Sisterhood is in all of us. It is every woman who is keeping the dream alive. And the oldest dreamkeepers, the Grandmothers, are in danger at this very moment. We must write and we must act to keep the knowledge and the powers of woman alive./Lynn Andrews"
quote[number++] = "One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men's./M. Carey Thomas"
quote[number++] = "Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of beginning, all fear of an end./Madame de Stael"
quote[number++] = "Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another./Madonna"
quote[number++] = "It is better to be looked over than overlooked./Mae West"
quote[number++] = "There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out./Mae West"
quote[number++] = "To err is human, but is feels divine./Mae West"
quote[number++] = "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful./Mae West"
quote[number++] = "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before./Mae West"
quote[number++] = "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it./Margaret Fuller"
quote[number++] = "The special genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency./Margaret Fuller"
quote[number++] = "Be lazy, go crazy./Margaret Mead"
quote[number++] = "If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place./Margaret Mead"
quote[number++] = "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has./Margaret Mead"
quote[number++] = "Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect./Margaret Mitchell"
quote[number++] = "Silences make the real conversations between friends.  Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts./Margaret Runbeck"
quote[number++] = "No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body./Margaret Sanger"
quote[number++] = "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it./Margaret Thatcher"
quote[number++] = "If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing./Margaret Thatcher"
quote[number++] = "If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman./Margaret Thatcher"
quote[number++] = "We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state./Margaret Thatcher"
quote[number++] = "Take your work seriously, but never yourself./Marguerite Duras"
quote[number++] = "By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air; it is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, 'I don't want to', or 'I don't know how,' or 'I can't'./Marguerite Duras"
quote[number++] = "Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination./Maria Callas"
quote[number++] = "When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping./Maria Mitchell"
quote[number++] = "Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow./Maria Mitchell"
quote[number++] = "We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but is somewhat beauty and poetry./Maria Mitchell"
quote[number++] = "We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing./Marian Anderson"
quote[number++] = "As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might./Marian Wright Edelman"
quote[number++] = "If you don't like the way the world is, you change it.  You have an obligation to change it.  You just do it one step at a time./Marian Wright Edelman"
quote[number++] = "Service is what life is all about./Marian Wright Edelman"
quote[number++] = "We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee./Marian Wright Edelman"
quote[number++] = "You really can change the world if you care enough./Marian Wright Edelman"
quote[number++] = "You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day./Marie Curie"
quote[number++] = "I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done./Marie Curie"
quote[number++] = "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood./Marie O' Conner"
quote[number++] = "It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised; the mosquito is swatted./Marion Wright Edelman"
quote[number++] = "If you don't like the way the world is, you change it.  You have an obligation to change it.  You just do it one step at a time./Martha Grimes"
quote[number++] = "We don't know who we are until we see what we can do./Martha Washington"
quote[number++] = "I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances./Martina Navratilova"
quote[number++] = "Just go out there and do what you have to do./Martina Navratilova"
quote[number++] = "I think the key is for women not to set any limits./Mary Cassatt"
quote[number++] = "I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work./Mary Catherine Bateson"
quote[number++] = "Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society./Mary Catherine Bateson"
quote[number++] = "In many ways, constancy is an illusion./Mary Catherine Bateson"
quote[number++] = "Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving./Mary Catherine Bateson"
quote[number++] = "We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn./Mary Daly"
quote[number++] = "Courage to be is the key to the revelatory power of the feminist revolution./Mary Kay Ash"
quote[number++] = "Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway./Mary Lou Retton"
quote[number++] = "If you're a gymnast something is always hurting, but you still train. You just have to learn to live with the discomfort./Mary Lou Retton"
quote[number++] = "Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing yourself to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off./Mary McLeod Bethune"
quote[number++] = "I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity./Mary McLeod Bethune"
quote[number++] = "Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough./Mary McLeod Bethune"
quote[number++] = "The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind./Mary Shelley"
quote[number++] = "Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye./Mary Steenburgen"
quote[number++] = "I think it's very important for everyone in America to realize right now the state of our country, not just on this issue but on a lot of issues, that it is time to get active again. People have just sat back and just sort of said, oh, let somebody else do it for a long time, and we're seeing what's happening to the country, even freedom of speech. It's not going well. So I think this is a real opportunity for people to see, yes, if you do get out and you do get active, there are other people there. You just have to seek them out./Mary Tyler More"
quote[number++] = "You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you./May Sarton"
quote[number++] = "Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self./May Sarton"
quote[number++] = "Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff./Maya Angelou"
quote[number++] = "If you don't like something, change it.  If you can't change it, change your attitude.  Don't complain./Maya Angelou"
quote[number++] = "If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded./Maya Angelou"
quote[number++] = "Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable./Maya Angelou"
quote[number++] = "The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry./Melissa Hahn"
quote[number++] = "It's nice to be important, but it's important to be nice./Mignon McLaughlin"
quote[number++] = "Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show./Mother Jones"
quote[number++] = "My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong./Mother Teresa"
quote[number++] = "Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand./Mother Teresa"
quote[number++] = "Love is doing small things with great love./Muriel Strode"
quote[number++] = "Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail./Myrlie Evers"
quote[number++] = "I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all./Nancy Astor"
quote[number++] = "In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman./Nancy Kerrigan"
quote[number++] = "Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever./Nancy Kerrigan"
quote[number++] = "Everyone has bad stretches and real successes. Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident./Nancy Kerrigan"
quote[number++] = "How high I aim, how much I see, how far I reach, depends on me!/Nancy Kerrigan"
quote[number++] = "Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose./Nancy Lopez"
quote[number++] = "A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride./Nikki Giovanni"
quote[number++] = "It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise./Olga Knopf"
quote[number++] = "We love because it's the only true adventure./Pam Brown"
quote[number++] = "The art of being a woman can never consist of being a bad imitation of a man./Patricia Schroeder"
quote[number++] = "A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely./Pearl Bailey"
quote[number++] = "I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both./Pearl S. Buck"
quote[number++] = "There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it./Pearl S. Buck"
quote[number++] = "Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment./Pearl S. Buck"
quote[number++] = "The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women./Pearl S. Buck"
quote[number++] = "Compete against yourself, not others./Peggy Fleming"
quote[number++] = "There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them./Phyllis Bottome"
quote[number++] = "Women have to join their voices with those of others to define what kind of society they want to live in here in the U.S. and with our sisters around the globe./Prema Mathai-Davis"
quote[number++] = "People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me./Princess Diana"
quote[number++] = "People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute./Rabecca West"
quote[number++] = "Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts./Rachel Carson"
quote[number++] = "We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road—the one less traveled by—offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth./Rachel Carson"
quote[number++] = "Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one./Raisa Gorbachev"
quote[number++] = "Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart./Raisa Gorbachev"
quote[number++] = "I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss./Rita Mae Brown"
quote[number++] = "Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human./Robin Morgan"
quote[number++] = "We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn./Rosa Luxemburg"
quote[number++] = "Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic./Rosalind Russell"
quote[number++] = "Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses./Rosalind Russell"
quote[number++] = "We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home./Rosalyn Sussman"
quote[number++] = "That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference. You're not prone to measure your energies in time. You're not likely to live by equations./Ruby Dee"
quote[number++] = "The secret of getting ahead is getting started./Sally Berger"
quote[number++] = "Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom./Sandra Day O'Connor"
quote[number++] = "The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come./Sandra Day O'Connor"
quote[number++] = "Forget the past and live the present hour./Sarah Knowles Bolton"
quote[number++] = "Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees./Sarah Orne Jewett"
quote[number++] = "Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading./Sarah Orne Jewett"
quote[number++] = "The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl.'/Shirley Chisholm"
quote[number++] = "What it really matters is what you do with what you have./Shirly Lord"
quote[number++] = "The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concreted situation./Simone de Beauvoir"
quote[number++] = "One is not born a woman, one becomes one./Simone de Beauvoir"
quote[number++] = "In the face of an obstacle which it is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid./Simone de Beauvoir"
quote[number++] = "The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels./Simone de Beauvoir"
quote[number++] = "Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries./Sister Corita Kent"
quote[number++] = "It is the mind that makes the body./Sojourner Truth"
quote[number++] = "Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life./Sophie Loren"
quote[number++] = "Failure is impossible./Susan B. Anthony"
quote[number++] = "Independence is happiness./Susan B. Anthony"
quote[number++] = "Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less./Susan B. Anthony"
quote[number++] = "The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it./Susan B. Anthony"
quote[number++] = "There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers./Susan B. Anthony"
quote[number++] = "Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences./Susan B. Anthony"
quote[number++] = "The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race./Susan B. Anthony"
quote[number++] = "She had observed that it was from those who had never sailed stormy waters, came the quickest and harshest judgments on bad seamanship in heavy seas./Susan Glaspell"
quote[number++] = "You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled./Tahanie"
quote[number++] = "Be critical. Women have the right to say: 'This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.'/Tillie Olsen"
quote[number++] = "Those who say they can see through women are missing a lot./Unknown"
quote[number++] = "I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman./Virginia Woolf"
quote[number++] = "As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world./Virginia Woolf"
quote[number++] = "Where there is great love, there are always miracles./Willa Cather"
quote[number++] = "I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do./Willa Cather"
quote[number++] = "Where there is great love there are always miracles./Willa Cather"
quote[number++] = "Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold./Zelda Fitzgerald"
quote[number++] = "Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me./Zora Neale Hurston"
quote[number++] = "Every woman has a well-stocked arsenal of anger potentially useful against those depressions, personal and institutional, which brought that anger into being. Focused with precision it can be come a powerful source of energy serving progress and change./Audre Lorde"
quote[number++] = "There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique./Martha Graham"

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