Bad Girls Throughout History Quotes

“You are never too old, too small, or too late to live the life you’re meant to lead. Especially if it means rewriting the rules to do it.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“Everything we’ve gained has been hard-won by a woman who was willing to be bad in the best sense of the word.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“To be a bad girl is to break any socially accepted rule. For some women, it’s the way they dress. For other girls, it’s the act of going to school. At one point, it was fighting for the right to vote. Anything we do outside the lines is immediately up for persecution.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“Better bitch than mouse.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“She was a strong advocate for women’s rights and women in the workforce; for example, she permitted only female reporters to attend her press conferences, which forced publications to keep female journalists on staff.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“Her first published work appeared when she was fifteen, but it was printed under the name of her father’s friend because her family believed that ladies’ names should appear in newspapers only for birth, marriage, and death announcements.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“She had a tenuous relationship with a controlling mother—her mom forbade her to read novels until she was married, so Edith would sneak books from her father’s library.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“You are never too old, too small, or too late to live the life you’re meant to lead.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“Everything we’ve gained has been hard-won by a woman who was willing to be bad in the best sense”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“I Love Lucy also invented the sitcom format, the live audience, and the rerun, and it was the first to be shot on film so that it could be filmed in Hollywood, where Ball and Arnaz lived. To make the costly compromise, they formed Desilu Productions and produced the show themselves. With Desilu, Ball became the first female head of a major television studio, and the studio went on to produce multiple hit series including Star Trek and Mission: Impossible. She remained a mainstay on television for the next thirty years.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“Her message: the way to get what you want out of life is not through a man but through your career; set your mind to something, and work really hard to get it. Oh, and you should definitely have a lot of fun on the way up—and not wait for marriage to bring you that happy ending.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“the general effect of attempting things beyond us, even though we fail, is to enlarge and liberalize the mind.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“The book presents a broad world of women coming from all eras, countries, backgrounds, races, and ethnicities. They’re rabble-rousers from all sorts of disciplines: artists, activists, astronauts, daredevils, outlaws, scientists, warriors, writers, and everything in between.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“This is a book about women. This is a book about girls who had a ton of fear and personal flaws and faced insurmountable obstacles but did amazing things anyway. This is a book about those who came before us, who knocked up against that glass ceiling and made a tiny fissure or a full-on crack.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“During World War I, Oakley offered to train a regiment of women sharpshooters, but the government ignored her. Instead, she set out to assist the war effort by performing at army camps to fund-raise for the Red Cross.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“As America’s first movie sweetheart, Pickford was savvy enough to leave her name off the executive producer and director credits in order to play to the public’s perception of her as a sweet, innocent young girl, but industry insiders knew that she called all the shots.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“During her nomination process, she got wind that one of her law school classmates was telling everyone about her demeaning nickname in school, to which Ginsburg replied, “Better bitch than mouse.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“Not bad for a Jewish girl from Brooklyn who, upon her arrival at Harvard Law School, had been asked by the dean why she thought she deserved to be there, taking a spot away from a more-deserving male.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

“Quant was the first designer to design for her generation—and she was great at it. She didn’t care about making money; she wanted to create innovative, fun, affordable fashions for women, so everyone from typists to royalty dropped by her shop.”
― Ann Shen, Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World