"Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known."
— Nellie McClung

"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use."
— Ruth Gordon

"The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures."
— Sara Paretsky (Bleeding Kansas)