17 - 23 November 24 QOTW

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Given the ongoing awful of the US election wake, how about a little dose of the possibilities of happiness and some quotes from activists?

Sunday

If you want to be happy for a year - get married. If you want to be happy for a decade - get a dog. If you want to be happy for the rest of your life- make a garden.

Martha Stewart in the documentary, Martha

Monday

For too long, men have called us names designed to insult, but also designed to imply we are too angry to be taken seriously: Bitch, Crazy feminist. Cunt. Yes, I am all those things, we must say. Yes, I am an angry woman. And angry women are free women.

Mona Eltahawy, Feminist Giant, Daily Dose: 4

Feminism in 3D: Defy, Disobey, Disrupt

Tuesday

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

Margaret Sanger

Wednesday

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Audre Lorde

Thursday

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make

 Dr. Jane Goodall

Friday

Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.

Arundhati Roy

Saturday

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

Malala Yousafzai,

If you have inspiring and intriguing quotes to share, please reach out. I’d love to include them here. I’m especially interested in quotes from feminists resisting the patriarchy. We need those more than ever right now.

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