100 Nasty Women of History Quotes

“It just goes to show, girls, that with enough good pals, a
bit of organization, and a naked grandmother or two, you can do anything.”
― Hannah Jewell, 100 Nasty Women of History

“After university, Annie [Smith Peck] was once again warned against the dangers of ~a lady~ moving around the country to different teaching jobs, let alone to Europe to carry on her studies, which she very much wanted to do. Her mother warned her what it might look like for a young woman to travel alone to Europe like a giant slut, but Annie replied: 'I have lived long enough to have got beyond trying to make all my actions satisfactory to my numerous friends and acquaintances.' Whack that over a sunset and put it on Instagram, friends.”
― Hannah Jewell, She Caused a Riot: 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, and Massively Crushed It

“When it comes to fear and curiosity in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred curiosity wins,' [Louise Mack] wrote, describing what it was like to feel the urge to report under such circumstances. 'You are not callous because you are curious...you are curious because you are alive...because you have a right to see and hear all the strange and wonderful things, all the terrors as well as the glories that make up human existence. Not to care, not to want to see, to know, that is the callousness beyond redemption.”
― Hannah Jewell, She Caused a Riot: 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, and Massively Crushed It