Badass Affirmations. Becca Anderson

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      When I fight, there is usually a funeral and it isn’t mine.

      —Henrietta Green, the wealthiest American woman of her time; after inheriting about ten million dollars from her father and aunt, she worked on Wall Street and as a moneylender to grow her already considerable fortune—not that you could tell from her thrifty lifestyle

      I’m as strong as a man. Girls attract less attention in the frontier zone than men.

      —Andrée de Jongh, code name Dédée (which means “little mother”), a member of the WWII Belgian Resistance who was awarded the Medal of Freedom with Golden Palm for leading more than a hundred Allied soldiers across occupied France to safety in Spain

       Affirmation Station

      I will defend myself.

      I am a winner.

      I am a warrior.

      We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

      —Victoria, Queen of England and Britain’s second-longest reigning monarch (outlasted only by Queen Elizabeth II), who spearheaded England’s Victorian Era with her stringent personality, morals, and ethics

      Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

      —Edna St. Vincent Millay, a poet and playwright who made waves with her focus on female sexuality and feminism

      Passivity and quietism are invitations to war.

      —Dorothy Thompson, the First Lady of American Journalism, whose syndicated column “On the Record” was read by millions of people nationwide

      If I ever did manage to find a law to live by, I would break it.

      —Exene Cervenka, whose punk rock band X was started with a new friend she met at a poetry workshop

      The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

      —Dr. Joan Borysenko, physician, cofounder of a Mind/Body Clinic associated with Harvard Medical School, and New York Times bestselling author

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      I will follow my gut.

      I will do things my way.

      I fight for my beliefs.

      If you send up a weathervane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you’re going to limit yourself. That’s a very strange way to live.

      —Jessye Norman, an international opera singer with an exceptional vocal range; she was winner of the 1968 International Music Competition of the German Broadcasting Corporation

      It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

      —Agnes Repplier, an essayist and biographer with a sixty-five-year writing career; she had so much trouble learning how to read from her mother that, when she was ten, she finally taught herself

      You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone’s thumb.

      —Nancy Banks-Smith, a British radio and television critic who was recommended for (and turned down!) the Order of the British Empire

      You can cry, but don’t let it stop you. Don’t cry in one spot—cry as you continue to move.

      —Kina, a famous YouTuber, singer, and songwriter who won the “Doritos Crash the Super Bowl” musical competition

      Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.

      —Anne Lamott, an author of novels and nonfiction works focused on family and real (or realistic, in the case of her fiction) people

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      I remain hopeful.

      I fight for myself.

      I create my own happiness.

      The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self. All sin is easy after that.

      —Pearl Bailey, a United Nations advisor who started out as a Tony Award-winning Broadway actress and singer

      A woman [who] is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men—and people in general.

      —Lorraine Hansberry, a writer who broke multiple records as both the youngest and the first African American playwright to win a New York Critics’ Circle award after writing her play A Raisin in the Sun

      It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

      —Elizabeth Cady Stanton, an abolitionist and leader of the women’s rights movement who helped organize the National Women’s Suffrage Association and penned the revolutionary “Declaration of Sentiments”

      Badass to the Bone:

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

      In 1869, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the National Women’s Suffrage Association and put out a pro-feminist paper, The Revolution.

      When the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was passed in 1872, guaranteeing all Americans “equal protection of the laws” and specifically protecting the voting rights of “any of the male inhabitants” of any state, Anthony and Cady Stanton kicked into action demanding the right to vote for women as well. They began to work for a separate amendment giving this right to women; however, Congress blithely ignored the amendments put before them each year on the vote for women, and women’s suffrage would not come until almost fifty years later.

      Both Stanton and Anthony were real hell-raisers. Stanton, along with Lucretia Mott, organized the first women’s rights convention in 1848, with a СКАЧАТЬ