Quotes March 31, 2019

Change obstacles into challenges. You might have to step back and go a different direction, but you can achieve.
Raye Montague,
naval engineer who revolutionized the design process for naval ships, and US Navy’s first female program manager of ships
 
 
 
 
Put your ego in your pocket and sit on it.
Beverly Jenkins,
author
 
 
 
 
Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.
Mae Jemison,
engineer, physician, NASA astronaut and first black woman to travel into space
 
 
 
 
The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don’t wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it’s the greatest art.
Sonia Sanchez,
poet and recipient of the 2018 Wallace Stevens Award
 
 
 
 
What matters most is that we learn from living.
Doris Lessing,
writer and Nobel Prize winner
 
 
 
 
We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?
Lydia Sigourney,
poet
 
 
 
 
Life doesn’t begin when you lose weight. Big dreams can be planned for and achieved in the bodies we have today, regardless of size or age.
Deb Malkin,
one of at least 20 plus-size women who hiked Mount Kilimanjaro together from March 2 to 10
 
 
 
 
Lack of effort bends me out of shape.
Bernadette Locke-Mattox,
first woman to serve as assistant coach for a men’s NCAA Division I basketball team
 
 
 
 
Happiness? The color of it must be spring green.
Frances Mayes,
professor, writer and “Under the Tuscan Sun” memoirist
 
 
 
 
If there’s anything you’ve wanted to do for yourself, just get out and go for it.
Arlene Pieper,
first woman to finish a US marathon (Pikes Peak Marathon, 1959)
 
 
 
 
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to … behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word — politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Fran Lebowitz,
author
 
 
 
 
I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it because, they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; they could not do programs.
Rear Adm. Grace Murray Hopper,
developer of the first compiler for a computer programming language
 
 
 
 
I never did understand the trick of doing things like you were “supposed to.”
Karen Uhlenbeck,
mathematician, professor and first female winner of the prestigious Abel Prize (2019)
 
 
 
 
I had very little idea of what I was supposed to be doing, so I set out to learn. What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes, and step off the edge.
Katharine Graham,
second female publisher of a major American newspaper
 
 
 
 
The best book, like the best speech, will do it all — make us laugh, think, cry and cheer — preferably in that order.
Madeleine Albright,
first female US secretary of state
 
 
 
 
I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be — and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.
Lady Gaga,
singer, actress, Academy Award-winning songwriter and first artist to log more than 1 billion YouTube views
 
 
 
 
Take a limitation and turn it into an opportunity. Take an opportunity and turn it into an adventure by dreaming BIG!
Jo Franz,
author and speaker living with multiple sclerosis
 
 
 
 
It doesn’t matter what your background is and where you come from. If you have dreams and goals, that’s all that matters.
Serena Williams,
tennis player with the most Grand Slam titles in singles, doubles and mixed doubles among active players