[ { "ref": "001", "text": "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.", "person": "Audre Lorde", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "LGBTQ+", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde", "source": "A Burst of Light (1988)", "year": 1988, "context": "Written while Lorde was living with cancer. She meant survival as resistance, not self-care as a treat." }, { "ref": "002", "text": "Your silence will not protect you.", "person": "Audre Lorde", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "LGBTQ+", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Outsider", "source": "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action (1977)", "year": 1977, "context": "Written as she faced a cancer diagnosis, on the cost of staying quiet." }, { "ref": "003", "text": "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.", "person": "Maya Angelou", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Know_Why_the_Caged_Bird_Sings", "source": "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)", "year": 1969, "context": "From her first autobiography, on silence after childhood trauma." }, { "ref": "004", "text": "People will never forget how you made them feel.", "person": "Maya Angelou", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou", "source": "Widely attributed to Angelou", "year": null, "context": "A line Angelou returned to often, on how people remember feeling more than fact." }, { "ref": "005", "text": "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.", "person": "Toni Morrison", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison", "source": "Speech, Ohio Arts Council (1981)", "year": 1981, "context": "Morrison on writing the book you wish existed, from a Nobel laureate and towering voice in American letters." }, { "ref": "006", "text": "Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.", "person": "Toni Morrison", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloved_(novel)", "source": "Beloved (1987)", "year": 1987, "context": "From Beloved, her novel of slavery and memory, on the gap between being freed and owning your freedom." }, { "ref": "007", "text": "Culture does not make people. People make culture.", "person": "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Should_All_Be_Feminists", "source": "We Should All Be Feminists (2014)", "year": 2014, "context": "Her answer to the defence that inequality is 'just our culture'." }, { "ref": "008", "text": "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete.", "person": "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story", "source": "The Danger of a Single Story, TED (2009)", "year": 2009, "context": "From her TED talk, on how one-dimensional narratives flatten whole peoples." }, { "ref": "009", "text": "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.", "person": "Virginia Woolf", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Room_of_One%27s_Own", "source": "A Room of One's Own (1929)", "year": 1929, "context": "From her essay on women and fiction, arguing that creativity needs money, independence and space." }, { "ref": "010", "text": "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.", "person": "Simone de Beauvoir", "field": "Philosophy", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Sex", "source": "The Second Sex (1949)", "year": 1949, "context": "From The Second Sex, her foundational claim that womanhood is shaped by society rather than fixed at birth." }, { "ref": "011", "text": "There are years that ask questions and years that answer.", "person": "Zora Neale Hurston", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God", "source": "Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)", "year": 1937, "context": "From her novel of a Black woman's search for selfhood in the early-twentieth-century South." }, { "ref": "012", "text": "Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.", "person": "bell hooks", "field": "Education", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks", "source": "Teaching to Transgress (1994)", "year": 1994, "context": "hooks on reading as escape and liberation, from a childhood where books were both refuge and rebellion." }, { "ref": "013", "text": "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.", "person": "Gloria Steinem", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gloria_Steinem", "source": "Popularised by Steinem; origin debated", "year": null, "context": "Steinem's blunt take on how facing hard truths is uncomfortable before it is freeing." }, { "ref": "014", "text": "You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world.", "person": "Angela Davis", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Angela_Davis", "source": "From her lectures", "year": null, "context": "Davis on refusing to treat injustice as permanent, a recurring theme in her lectures." }, { "ref": "015", "text": "When one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.", "person": "Rosa Parks", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks", "source": "Rosa Parks: My Story (1992)", "year": 1992, "context": "Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat helped spark the Montgomery bus boycott, on resolve over fear." }, { "ref": "016", "text": "The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.", "person": "Ida B. Wells", "field": "Journalism", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells", "source": "Documented in her anti-lynching writing", "year": null, "context": "Wells was a journalist who documented lynching in the American South." }, { "ref": "017", "text": "Truth is powerful and it prevails.", "person": "Sojourner Truth", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth", "source": "Attributed to Truth", "year": null, "context": "Truth, born into slavery, became a leading voice for abolition and women's rights." }, { "ref": "018", "text": "If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.", "person": "Shirley Chisholm", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shirley_Chisholm", "source": "Widely attributed to Chisholm", "year": null, "context": "Chisholm was the first Black woman elected to the US Congress." }, { "ref": "019", "text": "When they go low, we go high.", "person": "Michelle Obama", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/25/remarks-first-lady-democratic-national-convention", "source": "Democratic National Convention (2016)", "year": 2016, "context": "Her rallying line at the 2016 Democratic convention, on meeting cruelty with dignity." }, { "ref": "020", "text": "You may be the first, but make sure you're not the last.", "person": "Kamala Harris", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Women", "Black", "Asian" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/07/kamala-harris-victory-speech-transcript/", "source": "Victory speech (2020)", "year": 2020, "context": "From her 2020 victory speech, addressed to the girls who would follow her into public life." }, { "ref": "021", "text": "Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.", "person": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg", "field": "Law", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg", "source": "Documented across interviews", "year": null, "context": "Ginsburg on why institutions need women at the table, not as a favour but as a correction." }, { "ref": "022", "text": "Fight for the things you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.", "person": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg", "field": "Law", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg", "source": "Remarks (2015)", "year": 2015, "context": "Ginsburg's advice on making change in a way that brings others with you." }, { "ref": "023", "text": "A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.", "person": "Sonia Sotomayor", "field": "Law", "tags": [ "Women", "Latinx" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Beloved_World", "source": "My Beloved World (2013)", "year": 2013, "context": "From the memoir of the first Latina US Supreme Court Justice, on effort outweighing self-doubt." }, { "ref": "024", "text": "One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.", "person": "Malala Yousafzai", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Global South" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://malala.org/news-and-voices/malala-un-speech", "source": "Address to the United Nations (2013)", "year": 2013, "context": "Her first speech after being shot by the Taliban for advocating girls' education." }, { "ref": "025", "text": "When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.", "person": "Malala Yousafzai", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Global South" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai", "source": "Attributed to Yousafzai", "year": null, "context": "Yousafzai on the power of a single voice, from her campaign for girls' education." }, { "ref": "026", "text": "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.", "person": "Marie Curie", "field": "Science", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marie_Curie", "source": "Widely attributed to Curie", "year": null, "context": "Curie, the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two sciences, on replacing fear with understanding." }, { "ref": "027", "text": "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.", "person": "Jane Goodall", "field": "Science", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall", "source": "Documented", "year": null, "context": "Goodall on individual responsibility, a thread running through her decades of conservation work." }, { "ref": "028", "text": "In nature nothing exists alone.", "person": "Rachel Carson", "field": "Science", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring", "source": "Silent Spring (1962)", "year": 1962, "context": "From Silent Spring, the book that helped launch the modern environmental movement." }, { "ref": "029", "text": "Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.", "person": "Mae Jemison", "field": "Science", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mae_Jemison", "source": "Attributed to Jemison", "year": null, "context": "Jemison was the first Black woman to travel to space." }, { "ref": "030", "text": "The world needs all kinds of minds.", "person": "Temple Grandin", "field": "Science", "tags": [ "Women", "Disabled" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.ted.com/talks/temple_grandin_the_world_needs_all_kinds_of_minds", "source": "TED (2010)", "year": 2010, "context": "Grandin, who is autistic, on neurodiversity as a strength." }, { "ref": "031", "text": "You are never too small to make a difference.", "person": "Greta Thunberg", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Disabled" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/16/world/greta-thunberg-cop24/index.html", "source": "COP24 address (2018)", "year": 2018, "context": "From the school climate strikes she began alone, which grew into a global movement." }, { "ref": "032", "text": "It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference.", "person": "Wangari Maathai", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Black", "Global South" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wangari_Maathai", "source": "Attributed to Maathai", "year": null, "context": "Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate." }, { "ref": "033", "text": "The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them.", "person": "Ellen Johnson Sirleaf", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Women", "Black", "Global South" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/05/text-of-ellen-johnson-sirleafs-speech/", "source": "Harvard commencement address (2011)", "year": 2011, "context": "Africa's first elected female head of state." }, { "ref": "034", "text": "Democracy is the best revenge.", "person": "Benazir Bhutto", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Women", "Global South" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto", "source": "Remarks (2007)", "year": 2007, "context": "Bhutto, the first woman to lead a modern Muslim-majority nation, on democracy as the answer to repression." }, { "ref": "035", "text": "I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best.", "person": "Frida Kahlo", "field": "Art", "tags": [ "Women", "Disabled", "Latinx" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo", "source": "Widely attributed; primary source not established", "year": null, "context": "Kahlo painted many self-portraits while living with chronic pain." }, { "ref": "036", "text": "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.", "person": "Georgia O'Keeffe", "field": "Art", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Georgia_O%27Keeffe", "source": "Documented", "year": null, "context": "O'Keeffe on painting as a language of its own, from a defining figure of American modernism." }, { "ref": "037", "text": "It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.", "person": "Nina Simone", "field": "Music", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nina_Simone", "source": "Documented interview", "year": null, "context": "Simone on the artist's responsibility to their times, which she lived through the civil-rights era." }, { "ref": "038", "text": "I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.", "person": "Nina Simone", "field": "Music", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nina_Simone", "source": "Documented interview", "year": null, "context": "Simone's own definition of freedom, from a life spent refusing to be made small." }, { "ref": "039", "text": "A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.", "person": "Serena Williams", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Serena_Williams", "source": "Attributed to Williams", "year": null, "context": "Williams on resilience over records, from one of the most decorated players in tennis history." }, { "ref": "040", "text": "Pressure is a privilege.", "person": "Billie Jean King", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Women", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Jean_King", "source": "Pressure Is a Privilege (2008)", "year": 2008, "context": "King came out publicly in 1981 and became a leading advocate for equality in sport." }, { "ref": "041", "text": "I'd rather regret the risks that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take.", "person": "Simone Biles", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_Biles", "source": "Attributed to Biles", "year": null, "context": "Biles on taking risks, from a gymnast who reshaped her sport and spoke openly about athletes' mental health." }, { "ref": "042", "text": "Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit.", "person": "Wilma Rudolph", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Women", "Black", "Disabled" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma_Rudolph", "source": "Attributed to Rudolph", "year": null, "context": "Rudolph overcame childhood polio to win Olympic sprint gold." }, { "ref": "043", "text": "You can't be what you can't see.", "person": "Marian Wright Edelman", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marian_Wright_Edelman", "source": "Attributed to Edelman", "year": null, "context": "Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund, on why visible role models matter." }, { "ref": "044", "text": "I got my start by giving myself a start.", "person": "Madam C.J. Walker", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Madam_C._J._Walker", "source": "Widely attributed; often cited from an address", "year": 1912, "context": "Often described as the first self-made female millionaire in the US." }, { "ref": "045", "text": "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.", "person": "James Baldwin", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Black", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Baldwin", "source": "As Much Truth As One Can Bear, The New York Times (1962)", "year": 1962, "context": "Baldwin on the necessity of facing hard truths before anything can change." }, { "ref": "046", "text": "You write in order to change the world.", "person": "James Baldwin", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Black", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Baldwin", "source": "Attributed to Baldwin", "year": null, "context": "Baldwin on writing as an act of confrontation and of hope." }, { "ref": "047", "text": "You gotta give them hope.", "person": "Harvey Milk", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/harvey-milk-youve-got-to-have-hope-24-june-1977/", "source": "Speech (1977)", "year": 1977, "context": "Milk was one of the first openly gay elected officials in the US." }, { "ref": "048", "text": "Hope will never be silent.", "person": "Harvey Milk", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harvey_Milk", "source": "Attributed to Milk", "year": null, "context": "A compact rallying phrase drawn from Milk's message of hope." }, { "ref": "049", "text": "We need in every community a group of angelic troublemakers.", "person": "Bayard Rustin", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Black", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin", "source": "Attributed to Rustin", "year": null, "context": "Rustin organised the 1963 March on Washington." }, { "ref": "050", "text": "It is a revolutionary act simply to be who you are.", "person": "Laverne Cox", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Black", "LGBTQ+", "Trans" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laverne_Cox", "source": "Attributed to Cox", "year": null, "context": "Cox on visibility as an act of courage, from a pioneering trans actor." }, { "ref": "051", "text": "If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?", "person": "RuPaul", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "LGBTQ+", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/RuPaul", "source": "RuPaul's Drag Race (signature sign-off)", "year": 2009, "context": "RuPaul's closing line on every episode of Drag Race, which grew into a wider mantra on self-worth." }, { "ref": "052", "text": "Be kind to one another.", "person": "Ellen DeGeneres", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ellen_DeGeneres", "source": "The Ellen DeGeneres Show sign-off", "year": null, "context": "DeGeneres's daily sign-off, which grew into a signature message." }, { "ref": "053", "text": "Being gay is among the greatest gifts God has given me.", "person": "Tim Cook", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-10-30/tim-cook-speaks-up", "source": "Bloomberg Businessweek essay (2014)", "year": 2014, "context": "Cook, the CEO of Apple, publicly came out in this essay." }, { "ref": "054", "text": "There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.", "person": "Hannah Gadsby", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hannah_Gadsby", "source": "Attributed to Gadsby", "year": null, "context": "From Gadsby's show Nanette, which reframed stand-up around trauma and survival." }, { "ref": "055", "text": "I'm tired of being invisible.", "person": "Sylvia Rivera", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Trans", "Latinx", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sylvia_Rivera", "source": "Attributed to Rivera", "year": null, "context": "Rivera co-founded STAR with Marsha P. Johnson." }, { "ref": "056", "text": "I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.", "person": "Freddie Mercury", "field": "Music", "tags": [ "LGBTQ+", "Global South" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury", "source": "Attributed to Mercury", "year": null, "context": "The Queen frontman on his own mythology; he was born in Zanzibar to Parsi parents." }, { "ref": "057", "text": "The time is always right to do what is right.", "person": "Martin Luther King Jr.", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.", "source": "Address at Oberlin College (1965)", "year": 1965, "context": "King on moral urgency, from his address at Oberlin College." }, { "ref": "058", "text": "If there is no struggle, there is no progress.", "person": "Frederick Douglass", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.gilderlehrman.org/ap-african-american-studies/unit-2/organizing-for-freedom/west-india-emancipation-1857", "source": "Speech on West India Emancipation (1857)", "year": 1857, "context": "Douglass, who escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist, on struggle as the price of progress." }, { "ref": "059", "text": "It always seems impossible until it's done.", "person": "Nelson Mandela", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Black", "Global South" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela", "source": "Attributed to Mandela", "year": null, "context": "Mandela on perseverance, after 27 years imprisoned before leading South Africa away from apartheid." }, { "ref": "060", "text": "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.", "person": "Nelson Mandela", "field": "Education", "tags": [ "Black", "Global South" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela", "source": "Attributed to Mandela", "year": null, "context": "A line Mandela used often, on education as the route out of poverty and division." }, { "ref": "061", "text": "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.", "person": "Desmond Tutu", "field": "Religion", "tags": [ "Black", "Global South" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Desmond_Tutu", "source": "Documented", "year": null, "context": "Tutu, an Anglican archbishop who helped end apartheid, on the cost of staying silent." }, { "ref": "062", "text": "Education must not simply teach work, it must teach life.", "person": "W.E.B. Du Bois", "field": "Education", "tags": [ "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois", "source": "Attributed to Du Bois", "year": null, "context": "Du Bois, the first Black person to earn a Harvard doctorate, on schooling for life and not labour alone." }, { "ref": "063", "text": "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.", "person": "George Washington Carver", "field": "Education", "tags": [ "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver", "source": "Attributed to Carver", "year": null, "context": "Carver, born into slavery, became a pioneering agricultural scientist and educator." }, { "ref": "064", "text": "There is no story that is not true.", "person": "Chinua Achebe", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Black", "Global South" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_Fall_Apart", "source": "Things Fall Apart (1958)", "year": 1958, "context": "From Things Fall Apart, the novel that reshaped how African stories were told in fiction." }, { "ref": "065", "text": "Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.", "person": "Nikki Giovanni", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nikki_Giovanni", "source": "Attributed to Giovanni", "year": null, "context": "Giovanni on resilience, from a poet central to the Black Arts Movement." }, { "ref": "066", "text": "In order to rise from its own ashes, a phoenix first must burn.", "person": "Octavia Butler", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Talents_(novel)", "source": "Parable of the Talents (1998)", "year": 1998, "context": "Butler, a pioneering Black science-fiction writer, on renewal through hardship." }, { "ref": "067", "text": "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.", "person": "Alice Walker", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice_Walker", "source": "Attributed to Walker", "year": null, "context": "Walker, author of The Color Purple, on reclaiming power that people assume they do not have." }, { "ref": "068", "text": "I shall dance all my life.", "person": "Josephine Baker", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Black", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Josephine_Baker", "source": "Attributed to Baker", "year": null, "context": "Baker, an entertainer who became a civil-rights figure and wartime Resistance agent, on a life given to performance." }, { "ref": "069", "text": "Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.", "person": "Sitting Bull", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Indigenous" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sitting_Bull", "source": "Attributed to Sitting Bull", "year": null, "context": "A Lakota leader's call to put the next generation first." }, { "ref": "070", "text": "The secret of our success is that we never, ever give up.", "person": "Wilma Mankiller", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Indigenous", "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wilma_Mankiller", "source": "Attributed to Mankiller", "year": null, "context": "Mankiller was the first woman elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation." }, { "ref": "071", "text": "Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist.", "person": "Winona LaDuke", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Indigenous", "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winona_LaDuke", "source": "Attributed to LaDuke", "year": null, "context": "LaDuke, an Ojibwe economist and environmental campaigner, on how basic rights get recast as radical." }, { "ref": "072", "text": "Sí, se puede.", "person": "Dolores Huerta", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Latinx" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://ufw.org/research/history/history-si-se-puede/", "source": "Coined by Huerta (1972)", "year": 1972, "context": "The rallying cry of the United Farm Workers; 'Yes, we can.'" }, { "ref": "073", "text": "The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.", "person": "Cesar Chavez", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Latinx" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cesar_Chavez", "source": "Documented", "year": null, "context": "Chavez, co-founder of the United Farm Workers, on organising as fundamentally about people." }, { "ref": "074", "text": "You are the storyteller of your own life.", "person": "Isabel Allende", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "Latinx", "Global South" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isabel_Allende", "source": "Attributed to Allende", "year": null, "context": "Allende, among the most widely read Spanish-language authors, on authorship over one's own life." }, { "ref": "075", "text": "Where there is a tree to plant, plant it yourself.", "person": "Gabriela Mistral", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "Latinx", "Global South" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gabriela_Mistral", "source": "Attributed to Mistral", "year": null, "context": "Chilean poet and the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature." }, { "ref": "076", "text": "Without strong communities, there is no strong nation.", "person": "Rigoberta Menchú", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Indigenous", "Latinx", "Global South" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rigoberta_Mench%C3%BA", "source": "Attributed to Menchú", "year": null, "context": "Menchú, a K'iche' Maya activist and Nobel laureate, on community as the basis of a nation." }, { "ref": "077", "text": "Life is the input of everyone who touched your life.", "person": "Yuri Kochiyama", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yuri_Kochiyama", "source": "Attributed to Kochiyama", "year": null, "context": "Kochiyama, a Japanese-American activist, on solidarity and interdependence across movements." }, { "ref": "078", "text": "The only way to survive is by taking care of one another.", "person": "Grace Lee Boggs", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Lee_Boggs", "source": "Attributed to Boggs", "year": null, "context": "Boggs, a Chinese-American philosopher and activist, on mutual care as the means of survival." }, { "ref": "079", "text": "In a time of destruction, create something.", "person": "Maxine Hong Kingston", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maxine_Hong_Kingston", "source": "Attributed to Kingston", "year": null, "context": "Kingston on creativity as a response to destruction, from a landmark Asian-American author." }, { "ref": "080", "text": "I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years.", "person": "Amy Tan", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joy_Luck_Club", "source": "The Joy Luck Club (1989)", "year": 1989, "context": "From The Joy Luck Club, on the slow erosion of self across a life." }, { "ref": "081", "text": "Why not me?", "person": "Mindy Kaling", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Not_Me%3F_(book)", "source": "Why Not Me? (2015)", "year": 2015, "context": "The title question of Kaling's memoir, on claiming opportunity." }, { "ref": "082", "text": "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.", "person": "Helen Keller", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Disabled" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helen_Keller", "source": "Attributed to Keller", "year": null, "context": "Keller, deaf and blind from infancy, became a celebrated author and campaigner." }, { "ref": "083", "text": "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.", "person": "Helen Keller", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Disabled" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helen_Keller", "source": "Attributed to Keller", "year": null, "context": "Keller on vision as imagination rather than eyesight." }, { "ref": "084", "text": "Love is an action, never simply a feeling.", "person": "bell hooks", "field": "Education", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_About_Love", "source": "All About Love: New Visions (2000)", "year": 2000, "context": "hooks on love as something practised and chosen, not just felt." }, { "ref": "085", "text": "Disability only becomes a tragedy when society fails to provide the things we need to lead our lives.", "person": "Judith Heumann", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Disabled" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Heumann", "source": "Expressed repeatedly in her talks; exact wording varies", "year": null, "context": "A leader of the disability rights movement; the social model of disability in a sentence." }, { "ref": "086", "text": "The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.", "person": "Marlee Matlin", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Disabled" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlee_Matlin", "source": "Attributed to Matlin", "year": null, "context": "Matlin was the first deaf performer to win an Academy Award." }, { "ref": "087", "text": "Turn your wounds into wisdom.", "person": "Oprah Winfrey", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey", "source": "Attributed to Winfrey", "year": null, "context": "Winfrey on turning hardship into insight, a thread running through her own story." }, { "ref": "088", "text": "The only thing that separates women of colour from anyone else is opportunity.", "person": "Viola Davis", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://criticalmediaproject.org/viola-davis-2015-emmy-acceptance-speech-2/", "source": "Emmy Awards acceptance speech (2015)", "year": 2015, "context": "The first Black woman to win the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama." }, { "ref": "089", "text": "If your dream only includes you, it's too small.", "person": "Ava DuVernay", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ava_DuVernay", "source": "Attributed to DuVernay", "year": null, "context": "DuVernay, a leading film-maker, on ambition that makes room for others." }, { "ref": "090", "text": "You can start late, look different, be uncertain, and still succeed.", "person": "Misty Copeland", "field": "Art", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_Copeland", "source": "Attributed to Copeland", "year": null, "context": "Copeland was the first Black woman promoted to principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre." }, { "ref": "092", "text": "What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.", "person": "Sappho", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sappho", "source": "Fragment, ancient Greek (translation varies)", "year": null, "context": "Sappho of Lesbos is one of the earliest recorded women poets." }, { "ref": "093", "text": "Who am I to judge?", "person": "Pope Francis", "field": "Religion", "tags": [ "Male Allies", "Male Role Models" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2013/july/documents/papa-francesco_20130728_gmg-conferenza-stampa.html", "source": "Remarks to journalists (July 2013)", "year": 2013, "context": "Said about gay priests. Read as a softening of tone, though doctrine did not change. Included as an ally standing with the LGBTQ+ community, not a member of it." }, { "ref": "094", "text": "I am going to keep saying that I am a feminist until it is met with a shrug.", "person": "Justin Trudeau", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Male Allies", "Male Role Models" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Justin_Trudeau", "source": "Public remarks; exact wording to be confirmed", "year": 2016, "context": "Included as an ally standing with the women's community, not a member of it." }, { "ref": "095", "text": "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.", "person": "Robert F. Kennedy", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Male Allies", "Male Role Models" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/the-kennedy-family/robert-f-kennedy/robert-f-kennedy-speeches/day-of-affirmation-address-university-of-capetown-capetown-south-africa-june-6-1966", "source": "Day of Affirmation Address, Cape Town (1966)", "year": 1966, "context": "Delivered in apartheid South Africa. Included as an ally standing with oppressed communities, not a member of one." }, { "ref": "097", "text": "Sound is a social currency.", "person": "Christine Sun Kim", "field": "Art", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian", "Disabled" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Sun_Kim", "source": "Attributed to Sun Kim", "year": null, "context": "Sun Kim is a Deaf sound artist who explores how sound carries power." }, { "ref": "098", "text": "I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.", "person": "Langston Hughes", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Black", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes", "source": "Attributed to Hughes", "year": null, "context": "Hughes, a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, on quiet determination." }, { "ref": "099", "text": "Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.", "person": "Michelle Obama", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michelle_Obama", "source": "Attributed to Obama", "year": null, "context": "Obama on measuring success by the impact you have on others." }, { "ref": "100", "text": "I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.", "person": "Angela Davis", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Angela_Davis", "source": "Widely attributed to Davis", "year": null, "context": "A widely shared line on the difference between acceptance and action." }, { "ref": "101", "text": "The very heartbeat of racism is denial.", "person": "Ibram X. Kendi", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/ibram-x-kendi-the-very-heartbeat-of-racism-is-denial-470332/", "source": "Lecture, University of Rochester (2020)", "year": 2020, "context": "Kendi, historian and author of How to Be an Antiracist, on denial as the core mechanism of racism." }, { "ref": "102", "text": "I think to be racist is to support policies that are leading to inequality or injustice.", "person": "Ibram X. Kendi", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750799889/ibram-x-kendi-racism-isnt-an-identity-its-what-youre-doing-in-the-moment", "source": "NPR interview (2019)", "year": 2019, "context": "Kendi reframing racism as something people do, not a fixed identity." }, { "ref": "103", "text": "Racist is an adjective, not a noun.", "person": "Ibram X. Kendi", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://time.com/collections/time100-leadership-series/6251858/ibram-x-kendi-antiracism-interview/", "source": "TIME interview (2019)", "year": 2019, "context": "A short version of Kendi's central argument about racism as action, not label." }, { "ref": "104", "text": "When I leave this world, I don't want to be remembered as just being good at tennis. I want to be remembered as a good person and a good advocate.", "person": "Coco Gauff", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "", "source": "ESPN interview (2022)", "year": 2022, "context": "Gauff on wanting her legacy to extend past her ranking." }, { "ref": "105", "text": "I always wanted to not just be a tennis player.", "person": "Coco Gauff", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Coco_Gauff", "source": "Attributed to Gauff", "year": null, "context": "Gauff on seeing herself beyond her sport." }, { "ref": "106", "text": "I'm ready mentally, physically, and emotionally. And I'm here to stay, I'm not back, I'm better.", "person": "Sha'Carri Richardson", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.si.com/track-and-field/2023/07/08/shacarri-richardson-us-track-and-field-championships-100-meter-im-not-back-im-better", "source": "Post-race interview, US Outdoor Track and Field Championships (2023)", "year": 2023, "context": "Richardson after winning the 100m national title following a turbulent few years in the public eye." }, { "ref": "107", "text": "Growing up in the Western world, there are so many times where I'm like, Oh, I'm not white. My name is not that easy to say. I'm not as relatable as a white person.", "person": "Rina Sawayama", "field": "Music", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://fashionjournal.com.au/music/rina-sawayama-on-cultural-identity-and-how-it-shaped-her-debut-album/", "source": "Fashion Journal interview (2020)", "year": 2020, "context": "Sawayama on growing up feeling caught between cultures in the UK." }, { "ref": "108", "text": "For the longest time I was trying to be white and fit in, that's also fine at some points in your life, I had to do that to survive in certain spaces.", "person": "Rina Sawayama", "field": "Music", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://fashionjournal.com.au/music/rina-sawayama-on-cultural-identity-and-how-it-shaped-her-debut-album/", "source": "Fashion Journal interview (2020)", "year": 2020, "context": "Sawayama on code-switching to survive spaces not built for her." }, { "ref": "109", "text": "I mostly have to think about identity when it's imposed on me. When people on the street send slurs my way. When forms require me to pick a gender.", "person": "Alok Vaid-Menon", "field": "Art", "tags": [ "Trans", "LGBTQ+", "Asian" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.afar.com/magazine/an-interview-with-alok-vaid-menon-on-identity-queerness-and-travel", "source": "AFAR Magazine interview", "year": null, "context": "Vaid-Menon on identity as something forced on them by others, not chosen." }, { "ref": "110", "text": "There are as many genders as there are people.", "person": "Alok Vaid-Menon", "field": "Art", "tags": [ "Trans", "LGBTQ+", "Asian" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://elle.in/life-culture/alok-vaid-menon-on-gender-fashion-and-finding-community-in-india-10995128", "source": "ELLE India interview (2022)", "year": 2022, "context": "Vaid-Menon's short answer to a question they are asked constantly." }, { "ref": "111", "text": "Europeans didn't vibe with the way women held power in many Native societies.", "person": "Lily Gladstone", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Indigenous" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "", "source": "Vanity Fair interview (2023)", "year": 2023, "context": "Gladstone on the erasure of matrilineal power structures in many Indigenous nations." }, { "ref": "113", "text": "There's absolutely nothing wrong with you.", "person": "Elliot Page", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Trans", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/30/elliot-page-tells-trans-youth-theres-nothing-wrong-promoting-queer/", "source": "Message to trans youth, press for memoir Pageboy (2023)", "year": 2023, "context": "Page's message to trans youth while promoting his memoir." }, { "ref": "114", "text": "I can't overstate the biggest joy, which is really seeing yourself. I know I look different to others, but to me I'm just starting to look like myself.", "person": "Elliot Page", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Trans", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.today.com/popculture/popculture/elliot-page-transitioning-esquire-cover-photos-rcna31412", "source": "Esquire interview (2021)", "year": 2021, "context": "Page on the relief of finally seeing himself in the mirror." }, { "ref": "115", "text": "I never want to shy away from acknowledging who I am, being authentic as much as I can be. It's an important thing to be able to say, 'Yes, I'm out. I'm not ashamed of any part of who I am.'", "person": "Sharice Davids", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Women", "Indigenous", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://glaad.org/listen-rep-sharice-davids-first-lgbtq-native-american-congress-lgbtqa-podcast/", "source": "GLAAD/LGBTQ&A podcast (2018)", "year": 2018, "context": "Davids, one of the first two Native American women elected to Congress and its first openly LGBTQ+ member from Kansas." }, { "ref": "116", "text": "Having such a diverse group of people coming into Congress is going to make a difference, because no matter if your experience is very similar to mine or completely different than mine, it's just as real and it's just as valid.", "person": "Sharice Davids", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Women", "Indigenous", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/rep-elect-sharice-davids-gay-native-american-ready-shape-future-n948891", "source": "NBC News interview (2018)", "year": 2018, "context": "Davids on why a more representative Congress changes outcomes, not just optics." }, { "ref": "117", "text": "We are still here. The will to survive is engrained in us, passed down through the generations by our ancestors.", "person": "Deb Haaland", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Women", "Indigenous" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-haaland-delivers-remarks-power-indigenous-representation-52nd-anniversary", "source": "Department of the Interior remarks (2021)", "year": 2021, "context": "Haaland, the first Native American cabinet secretary, on Indigenous resilience." }, { "ref": "118", "text": "Representation matters, not only representation mattering for Indigenous people, but also for people who are just everyday Americans.", "person": "Deb Haaland", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Women", "Indigenous" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-haaland-delivers-remarks-power-indigenous-representation-52nd-anniversary", "source": "Department of the Interior remarks (2021)", "year": 2021, "context": "Haaland on why visible representation matters beyond symbolism." }, { "ref": "119", "text": "Ladies, don't let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime.", "person": "Michelle Yeoh", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/13/oscars-2023-michelle-yeoh-says-she-kung-fud-glass-ceiling-with-best-actress-win.html", "source": "Oscars acceptance speech, Best Actress (2023)", "year": 2023, "context": "Yeoh, the first Asian woman to win the Best Actress Oscar, in her acceptance speech." }, { "ref": "121", "text": "A feminist is a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes.", "person": "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_we_should_all_be_feminists", "source": "We Should All Be Feminists, TEDx (2012)", "year": 2012, "context": "Adichie's own working definition of the word, from her widely shared TEDx talk." }, { "ref": "122", "text": "I'm not OK with someone writing the Asian experience for an Asian character.", "person": "Awkwafina", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/a28943785/awkwafina-interview-2019/", "source": "Marie Claire interview (2019)", "year": 2019, "context": "Awkwafina on the importance of authorship, not just casting, in Asian stories." }, { "ref": "123", "text": "I'm definitely not all Asians, but the thing that I've always done is aggressively been myself.", "person": "Awkwafina", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/08/17/639670914/crazy-rich-asians-star-awkwafina-has-always-aggressively-been-myself", "source": "NPR interview (2018)", "year": 2018, "context": "Awkwafina on refusing to carry the weight of representing an entire community alone." }, { "ref": "124", "text": "Women can help turn the world right side up. We bring a more collaborative approach to government. And if we do not participate, then the decisions will be made without us.", "person": "Wilma Mankiller", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Women", "Indigenous" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://openbooks.library.umass.edu/giftsofspeech/chapter/wilma-mankiller-rebuilding-the-cherokee-nation-april-2-1993/", "source": "Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation, speech (1993)", "year": 1993, "context": "Mankiller on why women's participation in governance changes outcomes." }, { "ref": "125", "text": "The most important attribute of leadership is to trust yourself and believe in your own thinking.", "person": "Wilma Mankiller", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Women", "Indigenous" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wilma_Mankiller", "source": "Attributed to Mankiller", "year": null, "context": "Mankiller on self-trust as the foundation of leadership." }, { "ref": "126", "text": "We all have agency over our own stories, and no one can strip you of that agency. Your story is yours and it's your story to tell.", "person": "Janet Mock", "field": "Journalism", "tags": [ "Women", "Trans", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/02/janet-mock-on-redefining-realness-an-interview-with-the-transgender-author.html", "source": "Slate interview (2014)", "year": 2014, "context": "Mock on owning your own narrative, from her memoir press tour." }, { "ref": "127", "text": "Just me existing, as an openly black transgender woman from a working-class background, thriving, is a political act.", "person": "Laverne Cox", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Black", "Trans", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.t-mobile.com/news/community/laverne-cox-talking-with-trailblazers-pride-2021", "source": "T-Mobile Talking with Trailblazers interview", "year": null, "context": "Cox on visibility itself as resistance." }, { "ref": "128", "text": "I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.", "person": "Yuri Kochiyama", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://densho.org/catalyst/yuriquotes/", "source": "Widely quoted in Densho retrospectives", "year": null, "context": "Kochiyama on how her activism grew out of what she saw around her, not a single decision." }, { "ref": "129", "text": "Remember that consciousness is power. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.", "person": "Yuri Kochiyama", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://everydaypower.com/yuri-kochiyama-quotes/", "source": "Widely cited from her writings and talks", "year": null, "context": "Kochiyama's call to the next generation of organisers." }, { "ref": "130", "text": "We are beginning to understand that the world is always being made fresh and never finished; that activism can be the journey rather than the arrival.", "person": "Grace Lee Boggs", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7746759-we-are-beginning-to-understand-that-the-world-is-always", "source": "Widely cited from her writings and talks", "year": null, "context": "Boggs, a philosopher and organiser active for over 70 years, on activism as an ongoing practice." }, { "ref": "131", "text": "My disability is not something I've had to overcome. I'm still Deafblind. The biggest barrier I face is ableism.", "person": "Haben Girma", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Disabled", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/67055143-haben", "source": "Interview around her memoir Haben (2019)", "year": 2019, "context": "Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, on the social model of disability." }, { "ref": "132", "text": "Stop assuming we're incompetent. We are talented; we work hard. It's just ableism, the assumption that people with disabilities are inferior, that gets in our way.", "person": "Haben Girma", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Disabled", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://carroll.org/news/haben-girma-disability-has-been-an-opportunity-for-innovation/", "source": "Interview (2019)", "year": 2019, "context": "Girma naming ableism, not disability itself, as the barrier." }, { "ref": "133", "text": "I wanna see feisty disabled people change the world.", "person": "Judith Heumann", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Disabled" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/brief/439279/judy-heumann", "source": "Documentary Crip Camp (2020)", "year": 2020, "context": "Heumann's rallying line from the documentary on the disability rights movement she helped lead." }, { "ref": "134", "text": "We have to protect our body and our mind. It just sucks when you're fighting with your own head.", "person": "Simone Biles", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://ppimhs.org/newspost/simone-biles-an-unexpected-advocate-for-mental-health/", "source": "Post-Tokyo Olympics press remarks (2021)", "year": 2021, "context": "Biles on withdrawing from Tokyo events to protect her mental health." }, { "ref": "135", "text": "No medal, no accolade or exam results are more important than your mental health.", "person": "Simone Biles", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.olympics.com/en/news/simone-biles-no-medal-more-important-than-mental-health", "source": "Olympics.com interview", "year": null, "context": "Biles reflecting on the aftermath of Tokyo 2020." }, { "ref": "136", "text": "I do hope that people can relate and understand it's O.K. to not be O.K., and it's O.K. to talk about it.", "person": "Naomi Osaka", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Women", "Black", "Asian" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://time.com/6077128/naomi-osaka-essay-tokyo-olympics/", "source": "TIME essay, It's O.K. Not to Be O.K. (2021)", "year": 2021, "context": "Osaka's own essay after withdrawing from the French Open to protect her mental health." }, { "ref": "137", "text": "There are people who can help, and there is usually light at the end of any tunnel.", "person": "Naomi Osaka", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Women", "Black", "Asian" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://time.com/6077128/naomi-osaka-essay-tokyo-olympics/", "source": "TIME essay, It's O.K. Not to Be O.K. (2021)", "year": 2021, "context": "Osaka on reaching out for support during a difficult stretch." }, { "ref": "138", "text": "If they don't give you a seat at the table, stand on it with a megaphone.", "person": "Mari Copeny", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://nuhw.org/mari-copeny-aka-little-miss-flint/", "source": "Widely reported activism interviews", "year": null, "context": "Copeny, known as 'Little Miss Flint', became an activist for clean water as a child." }, { "ref": "139", "text": "Our greatest threat right now is leaders not taking action in environmental racism and the American water crisis.", "person": "Mari Copeny", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://yr.media/health/little-miss-flint-fighting-environmental-racism/", "source": "Interview on Flint water crisis activism", "year": null, "context": "Copeny naming environmental racism directly." }, { "ref": "140", "text": "Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men. I don't have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better.", "person": "Katherine Johnson", "field": "Science", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/katherine-johnson-a-lifetime-of-stem/", "source": "NASA retrospective interview material", "year": null, "context": "Johnson, the NASA mathematician whose calculations helped send the first Americans into orbit." }, { "ref": "141", "text": "I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed, anything that could be counted, I did.", "person": "Katherine Johnson", "field": "Science", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/langley/katherine-johnson-the-girl-who-loved-to-count/", "source": "NASA retrospective interview material", "year": null, "context": "Johnson on the counting habit that shaped her path into mathematics." }, { "ref": "142", "text": "Language brings with it an identity and a culture, or at least the perception of it. A shared language says 'We're the same.' A language barrier says 'We're different.'", "person": "Trevor Noah", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Black", "Global South" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.litcharts.com/lit/born-a-crime/terms/apartheid", "source": "Born a Crime, memoir (2016)", "year": 2016, "context": "Noah, who grew up mixed-race under apartheid South Africa, on language as a tool of belonging or exclusion." }, { "ref": "143", "text": "I was everywhere with everybody, and at the same time I was all by myself.", "person": "Trevor Noah", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Black", "Global South" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://lithub.com/trevor-noah-on-growing-up-in-south-africa-under-apartheid/", "source": "Born a Crime, memoir (2016)", "year": 2016, "context": "Noah on the isolation of not fully belonging to any one group growing up." }, { "ref": "144", "text": "I think having a baby sliced out of you is pretty hardcore.", "person": "Ali Wong", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.npr.org/transcripts/484163577", "source": "NPR interview (2015)", "year": 2015, "context": "Wong, known for candid stand-up about pregnancy and motherhood." }, { "ref": "145", "text": "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.", "person": "Greta Thunberg", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Disabled" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/09/23/763452863/transcript-greta-thunbergs-speech-at-the-u-n-climate-action-summit", "source": "UN Climate Action Summit speech (2019)", "year": 2019, "context": "From Thunberg's widely reported 'How dare you' speech to world leaders." }, { "ref": "146", "text": "The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you.", "person": "Greta Thunberg", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Disabled" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/09/23/763452863/transcript-greta-thunbergs-speech-at-the-u-n-climate-action-summit", "source": "UN Climate Action Summit speech (2019)", "year": 2019, "context": "Thunberg's closing warning to the same summit." }, { "ref": "147", "text": "What I really aspire to do in the poem is to be able to use my words to envision a way in which our country can still come together and can still heal.", "person": "Amanda Gorman", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "", "source": "New York Times interview (2021)", "year": 2021, "context": "Gorman on the aim behind her inaugural poem 'The Hill We Climb'." }, { "ref": "148", "text": "I've always held on to that America that I know, that I love, that does welcome refugees with open arms.", "person": "Ilhan Omar", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Women", "Black", "Global South" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716873017/rep-ilhan-omar-talks-about-her-life-and-embattled-first-months-in-congress", "source": "NPR interview (2019)", "year": 2019, "context": "Omar, one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress and a former refugee, on the country she believes in." }, { "ref": "149", "text": "The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression.", "person": "bell hooks", "field": "Education", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/author-quotes/love-resistance-hope-25-quotes-by-bell-hooks/", "source": "All About Love: New Visions (2000)", "year": 2000, "context": "hooks on choosing love as a form of resistance." }, { "ref": "151", "text": "Abolition is really about rethinking the kind of future we want, the social future, the economic future, the political future. It's about revolution, I would argue.", "person": "Angela Davis", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.democracynow.org/2020/6/12/angela_davis_on_abolition_calls_to", "source": "Democracy Now! interview (2020)", "year": 2020, "context": "Davis on abolition as a constructive project, not just the absence of policing and prisons." }, { "ref": "152", "text": "My question is, why are people so quick to assume that locking away an increasingly large proportion of the U.S. population would help those who live in the free world feel safer and more secure?", "person": "Angela Davis", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2003/03/abolish-prisons-says-angela-davis/", "source": "Harvard lecture (2003)", "year": 2003, "context": "Davis questioning the logic behind mass incarceration." }, { "ref": "153", "text": "As a deaf person living in a world of sound, it's as if I was living in a foreign country, blindly following its rules, customs, behaviors, and norms without ever questioning them.", "person": "Christine Sun Kim", "field": "Art", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian", "Disabled" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/artist-christine-sun-kim-doesnt-want-to-be-your-inspiration-pornstar", "source": "Interview Magazine", "year": null, "context": "Sun Kim on growing up navigating a hearing world's unquestioned norms." }, { "ref": "154", "text": "I truly believe American Sign Language is important because from the beginning, when a child is born, if they learn ASL, they have full access to information.", "person": "Christine Sun Kim", "field": "Art", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian", "Disabled" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2017/art-talk-sound-artist-christine-sun-kim", "source": "NEA Art Talk interview (2017)", "year": 2017, "context": "Sun Kim on the value of early sign language access for Deaf children." }, { "ref": "155", "text": "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.", "person": "Sonia Sotomayor", "field": "Law", "tags": [ "Women", "Latinx" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-latina-judges-voice-2/", "source": "Speech at UC Berkeley School of Law (2001)", "year": 2001, "context": "The line that became a flashpoint in Sotomayor's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, on lived experience shaping judgment." }, { "ref": "156", "text": "I do not believe that any ethnic, racial or gender group has an advantage in sound judging.", "person": "Sonia Sotomayor", "field": "Law", "tags": [ "Women", "Latinx" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sotomayor-explains-wise-latina-comment/", "source": "Senate confirmation hearing testimony (2009)", "year": 2009, "context": "Sotomayor clarifying her 'wise Latina' remark during her confirmation hearing." }, { "ref": "157", "text": "Don't be afraid to reach for the stars. I believe a good education can take you anywhere on Earth and beyond.", "person": "Ellen Ochoa", "field": "Science", "tags": [ "Women", "Latinx" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://spanishmama.com/ellen-ochoa-quotes/", "source": "Widely cited interview material", "year": null, "context": "Ochoa, the first Latina astronaut in space, on education as the route to opportunity." }, { "ref": "158", "text": "A willingness to ask questions and to learn, that is what is important.", "person": "Ellen Ochoa", "field": "Science", "tags": [ "Women", "Latinx" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.adlerplanetarium.org/educational-resources/interview-with-dr-ellen-ochoa/", "source": "Adler Planetarium interview", "year": null, "context": "Ochoa on curiosity as the foundation of a scientific career." }, { "ref": "159", "text": "Voting rights for me are the point of entry to democracy.", "person": "Stacey Abrams", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.cpr.org/2021/10/12/stacey-abrams-voting-rights-activist-on-why-voting-should-be-accessible-for-all/", "source": "Interview on voting rights (2021)", "year": 2021, "context": "Abrams on why she has focused her advocacy on voting access." }, { "ref": "160", "text": "Voter suppression is real. From making it harder to register and stay on the rolls to moving and closing polling places to rejecting lawful ballots, we can no longer ignore these threats to democracy.", "person": "Stacey Abrams", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/stacey-abrams-appeal-voting-rights", "source": "State of the Union response speech (2018)", "year": 2018, "context": "Abrams delivering the Democratic response to the State of the Union." }, { "ref": "162", "text": "You don't have to change the whole world, but by changing your thinking, you can change your actions, and then by changing your actions, you can change your community.", "person": "Marley Dias", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "", "source": "Interview on #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign", "year": null, "context": "Dias, who founded a campaign to collect books centring Black girls, on the scale of change she's aiming for." }, { "ref": "163", "text": "As we censor these really valuable stories, we are losing empathy in rapid levels throughout our country.", "person": "Marley Dias", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://resilienteducator.com/classroom-resources/marley-dias-1000-black-girl-books/", "source": "Interview on book censorship", "year": null, "context": "Dias on the cost of banning books that reflect diverse experiences." }, { "ref": "164", "text": "Ever since I could form coherent thoughts, I knew I was a girl trapped inside a boy's body. There was never any confusion in my mind.", "person": "Jazz Jennings", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Trans", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://time.com/4350574/jazz-jennings-transgender/", "source": "TIME interview (2016)", "year": 2016, "context": "Jennings, one of the youngest publicly documented transgender people, on her earliest memories of her gender identity." }, { "ref": "165", "text": "Wherever we are, this is home. Wherever I go, I'll always be Puerto Rican.", "person": "Bad Bunny", "field": "Music", "tags": [ "Latinx" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/bad-bunny-residente-interview-billboard-cover-story-1236078727/", "source": "Billboard interview with Residente (2025)", "year": 2025, "context": "Bad Bunny on identity and belonging as a Puerto Rican artist." }, { "ref": "166", "text": "I am Puerto Rican, I am Caribbean, and my music, my culture, my country's history run through my veins, from plena to reggaeton.", "person": "Bad Bunny", "field": "Music", "tags": [ "Latinx" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "", "source": "TIME interview", "year": null, "context": "Bad Bunny on the musical lineage running through his own work." }, { "ref": "167", "text": "I hope it's a bit of a love letter to everyone who feels different, who feels out of place, to all of the Black women who have walked into rooms and felt like they haven't been welcomed.", "person": "Cynthia Erivo", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Black", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/cynthia-erivo-black-queer-identity-wicked-1235181943/", "source": "Rolling Stone interview (2024)", "year": 2024, "context": "Erivo on what she hoped her performance in Wicked would mean to audiences." }, { "ref": "168", "text": "Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream is even smarter economics.", "person": "Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Women", "Black", "Global South" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.csis.org/analysis/why-developing-world-and-all-us-need-trade-and-wto", "source": "Remarks", "year": null, "context": "Okonjo-Iweala, the first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization, on the economics of investing in women." }, { "ref": "169", "text": "Everybody can play a role in combatting child food poverty in the UK and your role can be as small as a kind word or gesture.", "person": "Marcus Rashford", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/marcus-rashford-quotes-child-food-poverty-uk/", "source": "Public statement (2020)", "year": 2020, "context": "Rashford, footballer turned campaigner, on his free school meals campaign." }, { "ref": "170", "text": "People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.", "person": "Frank Ocean", "field": "Music", "tags": [ "Black", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-night-i-posted-it-i-cried-like-a-fing-baby-frank-ocean-opens-up-about-coming-out-ahead-of-channel-orange/", "source": "Interview around Channel Orange release (2012)", "year": 2012, "context": "Ocean, who came out via an open letter before his 2012 album release, on fear." }, { "ref": "171", "text": "This is politics for me. This is my life. I had to fight my entire life to get to the place where I could wear a dress to the Oscars.", "person": "Billy Porter", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Black", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2021/10/20/1047692882/harry-styles-billy-porter-gender-fluid-fashion", "source": "Sunday Times interview (2019)", "year": 2019, "context": "Porter on his red-carpet fashion as a political statement, not just style." }, { "ref": "172", "text": "I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate and strong.", "person": "Jacinda Ardern", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.ted.com/pages/jacinda-ardern-on-leading-with-empathy-transcript", "source": "TED interview material", "year": null, "context": "Ardern, former New Zealand Prime Minister, on leading with empathy without losing strength." }, { "ref": "173", "text": "We need to start focusing on bravery over perfection. We're raising our girls to be perfect, and we're raising our boys to be brave.", "person": "Reshma Saujani", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://developers.hp.com/public/blog/girls-who-code-founder-reshma-saujani-teach-girls-bravery-not-perfection", "source": "TED talk and interview material (2016)", "year": 2016, "context": "Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, on how girls and boys are raised differently." }, { "ref": "174", "text": "We have this notion that disability is invisible disabilities or physical disabilities. The reality is, we live in an ageing society. We'll all be disabled at some point in our lives.", "person": "Sinéad Burke", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Women", "Disabled" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/fashion/2023/04/28/sinead-burke-there-are-five-disabled-people-on-the-cover-of-vogue-being-daring-dynamic-and-disabled/", "source": "Irish Times interview (2023)", "year": 2023, "context": "Burke on disability as something nearly everyone will experience eventually." }, { "ref": "175", "text": "Nothing about us, without us.", "person": "Sinéad Burke", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Women", "Disabled" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.businessoffashion.com/news/media/i-have-an-invisible-disability-myself-edward-enninful-and-sinead-burke-on-their-fashion-revolution/", "source": "Business of Fashion interview (2023)", "year": 2023, "context": "Burke citing the long-standing disability rights principle." }, { "ref": "176", "text": "Your sexuality and your gender identity are one part of who you are. But it's so important that you focus on who you are and what you want for yourself.", "person": "Munroe Bergdorf", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Black", "Trans", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.timeout.com/london/lgbtq/munroe-bergdorf-the-world-is-going-to-get-queerer", "source": "Time Out London interview", "year": null, "context": "Bergdorf on not letting identity alone define your sense of self." }, { "ref": "177", "text": "The stories we tell about communities affect the laws that get passed, the people that get attacked, the countries that get invaded.", "person": "Riz Ahmed", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Asian", "Global South" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/riz-ahmed-encounter-muslim-representation-quotes", "source": "Interview on Muslim representation", "year": null, "context": "Ahmed on the real-world stakes of on-screen representation." }, { "ref": "178", "text": "Hashtags do not start movements. People do.", "person": "Alicia Garza", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Black", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alicia-garza-on-the-origin-of-black-lives-matter/", "source": "CBS News interview", "year": null, "context": "Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, on grassroots organising over online visibility." }, { "ref": "179", "text": "At first we were fighting people to even say Black lives matter. Now everybody's saying Black lives matter. The question now is, well, what do you mean?", "person": "Alicia Garza", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Black", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/alicia-garza-co-founded-black-lives-matter-why-future-hopeful", "source": "National Geographic interview", "year": null, "context": "Garza on the gap between saying the phrase and acting on it." }, { "ref": "180", "text": "Being non-violent is not being a coward. It's one of the most powerful tools because even those who pick up guns are cowards.", "person": "Leymah Gbowee", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Black", "Global South" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://theworld.org/stories/2011/10/07/nobel-news-liberian-peace-prize-winner-describes-her-work", "source": "Interview following Nobel Peace Prize (2011)", "year": 2011, "context": "Gbowee, who led the women's peace movement that helped end Liberia's civil war, on nonviolence as strength." }, { "ref": "181", "text": "When you've lived true fear for so long, you have nothing to be afraid of.", "person": "Leymah Gbowee", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Black", "Global South" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://theworld.org/stories/2011/10/07/nobel-news-liberian-peace-prize-winner-describes-her-work", "source": "Interview following Nobel Peace Prize (2011)", "year": 2011, "context": "Gbowee on fear losing its grip after living through war." }, { "ref": "182", "text": "In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.", "person": "Wangari Maathai", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Black", "Global South" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2004/maathai/lecture/", "source": "Nobel Peace Prize lecture (2004)", "year": 2004, "context": "Maathai's closing call in her Nobel lecture." }, { "ref": "183", "text": "Industry and global institutions must appreciate that ensuring economic justice, equity and ecological integrity are of greater value than profits at any cost.", "person": "Wangari Maathai", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Black", "Global South" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2004/maathai/lecture/", "source": "Nobel Peace Prize lecture (2004)", "year": 2004, "context": "Maathai on weighing ecological and economic justice above pure profit." }, { "ref": "184", "text": "If it wasn't for the drag queen, there would be no gay liberation movement.", "person": "Sylvia Rivera", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Trans", "Latinx", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/riverarisingandstronger.html", "source": "Speech (2001)", "year": 2001, "context": "Rivera crediting drag queens and trans women at the front lines of Stonewall." }, { "ref": "185", "text": "We're all in the same boat as long as we're being oppressed one way or the other, whether we are gay, straight, trans, black, yellow, green, purple, or whatever.", "person": "Sylvia Rivera", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Trans", "Latinx", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/riverarisingandstronger.html", "source": "Speech (2001)", "year": 2001, "context": "Rivera on solidarity across different forms of oppression." }, { "ref": "186", "text": "I'm a proud person who happens to be deaf.", "person": "Marlee Matlin", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Disabled" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/marlee-matlin-quotes", "source": "Widely cited interview quote", "year": null, "context": "Matlin on being defined by more than her deafness." }, { "ref": "187", "text": "My vision for the Me Too Movement is a part of a collective vision to see a world free of sexual violence, and I believe we can build that world.", "person": "Tarana Burke", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://time.com/4988282/me-too-tarana-burke-interview/", "source": "TIME interview", "year": null, "context": "Burke on the larger goal behind the movement she founded." }, { "ref": "188", "text": "What's above us connects us. Every group of people around the world have looked up at the stars for thousands of generations.", "person": "Mae Jemison", "field": "Science", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/astronaut-mae-jemison-space-flight/", "source": "CBS News interview", "year": null, "context": "Jemison, the first Black woman in space, on a shared human fascination with the sky." }, { "ref": "190", "text": "This whole thing is a talent issue. Women is a talent issue. It's not a gender issue.", "person": "Indra Nooyi", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/podcast-former-pepsico-ceo-indra-nooyi-on-her-climb-to-the-top", "source": "Podcast interview", "year": null, "context": "Nooyi reframing gender diversity in business as a matter of talent, not favour." }, { "ref": "191", "text": "If me being gay was a choice, it was a choice that was made far, far above my pay grade.", "person": "Pete Buttigieg", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.out.com/news/2019/4/08/pete-buttigieg-glad-hes-gay-he-didnt-always-feel", "source": "Out.com interview (2019)", "year": 2019, "context": "Buttigieg, the first openly gay candidate to mount a serious US presidential campaign, on his sexuality." }, { "ref": "192", "text": "The money part also allows you freedom, freedom to speak out, freedom to make bold choices, freedom to maybe go against your federation.", "person": "Megan Rapinoe", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Women", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2022/05/25/1101307630/soccer-star-megan-rapinoe-talks-about-finally-gaining-pay-equality", "source": "NPR interview (2022)", "year": 2022, "context": "Rapinoe on why the US women's soccer team's equal pay fight was about more than money." }, { "ref": "193", "text": "I raise up my voice, not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.", "person": "Malala Yousafzai", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women", "Global South" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://malala.org/news-and-voices/malala-un-speech", "source": "UN speech (2013)", "year": 2013, "context": "From the same UN address as her more famous 'one child, one pen' line." }, { "ref": "194", "text": "I became an artist, and thank god I did, because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life.", "person": "Viola Davis", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://time.com/4683341/oscars-2017-viola-davis-speech/", "source": "Oscars acceptance speech (2017)", "year": 2017, "context": "Davis's Oscars speech for Fences, on the purpose of her profession." }, { "ref": "195", "text": "Everybody supports women until a woman's doing better than you.", "person": "Sofia Isella", "field": "Music", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.letras.com/sofia-isella/everybody-supports-women/", "source": "Lyric, 'Everybody Supports Women' (2023)", "year": 2023, "context": "A single standout line from Isella's song, included as a narrow exception to the site's no-lyrics rule for standalone, aphoristic statements." }, { "ref": "196", "text": "I encourage women to step up. Don't wait for somebody to ask you.", "person": "Reese Witherspoon", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "", "source": "Widely reported interview material", "year": null, "context": "Witherspoon on taking initiative rather than waiting to be invited." }, { "ref": "197", "text": "I'm trying to take the stigma off the word ambitious, so we encourage more little girls to be ambitious, because I do think that's how society will change.", "person": "Reese Witherspoon", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "", "source": "Widely reported interview material", "year": null, "context": "Witherspoon on reclaiming a word often used against women." }, { "ref": "199", "text": "Feminism by definition is the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities.", "person": "Emma Watson", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2014/9/emma-watson-gender-equality-is-your-issue-too", "source": "HeForShe campaign speech, United Nations (2014)", "year": 2014, "context": "Watson's own working definition of feminism, from her UN address launching the HeForShe campaign." }, { "ref": "200", "text": "No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.", "person": "Emma Watson", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2014/9/emma-watson-gender-equality-is-your-issue-too", "source": "HeForShe campaign speech, United Nations (2014)", "year": 2014, "context": "From the same UN address, on how far gender equality still has to go everywhere." }, { "ref": "201", "text": "If not me, who, if not now, when.", "person": "Emma Watson", "field": "Activism", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2014/9/emma-watson-gender-equality-is-your-issue-too", "source": "HeForShe campaign speech, United Nations (2014)", "year": 2014, "context": "Watson's closing call to action in the same speech." }, { "ref": "202", "text": "There is not an industry I can think of where there is equal pay for equal work, or abuse of power doesn't exist, for men and for women. And so equality is not a political issue, it's a humanitarian issue.", "person": "Cate Blanchett", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.dailysabah.com/cinema/2018/06/01/cate-blanchett-embodiment-of-strong-women-in-film-industry", "source": "Daily Sabah interview (2018)", "year": 2018, "context": "Blanchett on reframing gender equality as a basic human issue, not a partisan one." }, { "ref": "204", "text": "If I was being 'sold' as a commodity of equal value to my male counterpart and worked as hard as him, I couldn't reconcile why I wasn't being remunerated equally.", "person": "Cate Blanchett", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.bustle.com/p/cate-blanchett-turned-down-a-role-where-she-wasnt-compensated-fairly-its-a-lesson-in-knowing-your-worth-8964840", "source": "Interview on turning down an unequally paid role", "year": null, "context": "Blanchett explaining why she walked away from a job over unequal pay." }, { "ref": "205", "text": "It's hard as a young person of a different ethnicity or background to look at the TV and not see anyone who looks like you.", "person": "Zendaya", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.bustle.com/articles/164569-zendayas-call-for-diversity-on-the-disney-channel-is-important-to-every-kid-who-grew-up-like-me", "source": "Cosmopolitan cover interview (2016)", "year": 2016, "context": "Zendaya on why on-screen representation matters to young viewers." }, { "ref": "206", "text": "I use my platform for more than just myself. To neglect the political is to neglect what essentially is your job of storytelling.", "person": "Zendaya", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "", "source": "Widely reported interview material", "year": null, "context": "Zendaya on why she treats her public platform as more than promotion." }, { "ref": "207", "text": "There is hope in the young people out there. And I just want to say to all my peers out there doing the work in the streets: I see you, I admire you, I thank you.", "person": "Zendaya", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emmys-2020-zendaya-is-the-youngest-to-win-the-award-for-lead-actress-in-a-drama-for-her-role-in-euphoria-2020-09-20/", "source": "Emmy Awards acceptance speech (2020)", "year": 2020, "context": "Zendaya, the youngest woman and second Black woman to win the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama, in her acceptance speech during a summer of protest." }, { "ref": "208", "text": "If Aristotle had cooked, he would have written much more.", "person": "Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz", "field": "Philosophy", "tags": [ "Women", "Latinx" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.she-philosopher.com/library/juana-kitchen-philosophy_Pt2.html", "source": "Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz (1691)", "year": 1691, "context": "Sor Juana, a self-taught nun and scholar in colonial New Spain, defending everyday domestic knowledge as a form of philosophy." }, { "ref": "209", "text": "The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.", "person": "Christine de Pizan", "field": "Philosophy", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165pisan.html", "source": "The Book of the City of Ladies (1405)", "year": 1405, "context": "Pizan, one of Europe's first professional woman writers, arguing that virtue, not sex, determines a person's worth." }, { "ref": "210", "text": "To be pleasant, gentle, calm and self-possessed: this is the basis of good taste and charm in a woman. But women who are too vain and act pretentiously, to the extent that they make others feel uncomfortable, will themselves become the object of attention.", "person": "Murasaki Shikibu", "field": "Literature", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/omori/court/murasaki.html", "source": "The Diary of Lady Murasaki (c. 1010)", "year": 1010, "context": "Murasaki, author of The Tale of Genji and a court lady in Heian-era Japan, in her own diary." }, { "ref": "211", "text": "I remember when I decided to be open about my own personal mental health, it was scary to be that vulnerable and I didn't ever want anyone to think I am a victim. I thought by sharing my own story I could help others.", "person": "Selena Gomez", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "Latinx" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "", "source": "Billboard interview", "year": null, "context": "Gomez on why she chose to speak publicly about her own mental health struggles." }, { "ref": "212", "text": "My anxiety and depression have ruled my life for as long as I can remember and I never leave the house because of it.", "person": "Kid Cudi", "field": "Music", "tags": [ "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/05/health/kid-cudi-depression-rehab", "source": "Facebook post announcing he had checked into rehab (2016)", "year": 2016, "context": "Cudi's own words in the post explaining why he had checked into treatment." }, { "ref": "213", "text": "Let's let everybody know it's okay to have a mental illness, it's okay to have an addiction problem.", "person": "Demi Lovato", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.out.com/popnography/2018/3/18/demi-lovatos-emotional-speech-about-mental-health-addiction-seriously-moving", "source": "Speech, Barclays Center (2018)", "year": 2018, "context": "Lovato addressing a sold-out crowd about mental illness and addiction." }, { "ref": "214", "text": "Depression is not as easy as saying, 'Just find your joy and you're going to become happy.' That was never my experience.", "person": "Jonathan Van Ness", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/10/8512111/jonathan-van-ness-bullying-gender-expression", "source": "Refinery29 interview (2019)", "year": 2019, "context": "Van Ness pushing back on the idea that depression can be resolved by simply choosing happiness." }, { "ref": "215", "text": "Everyone thinks women should be thrilled when we get crumbs, and I want women to have the cake, the icing, and the cherry on top too.", "person": "Billie Jean King", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Women", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.history.com/articles/billie-jean-king-equal-pay-for-play", "source": "Widely cited from her advocacy interviews", "year": null, "context": "King on refusing to settle for partial equality in prize money and pay." }, { "ref": "216", "text": "If we truly envision an equal world, it takes equal effort and sacrifice. Today is one of the most indelible days of my life because of Mark Wahlberg, WME and a community of women and men who share in this accomplishment.", "person": "Michelle Williams", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/michelle-williams-her-public-fight-equal-pay-1130027/", "source": "Public statement (2018)", "year": 2018, "context": "Williams after her co-star donated his reshoot fee to close the pay gap between them." }, { "ref": "217", "text": "So why does Wimbledon choose to place a lesser value on my championship trophy than that of the 2005 men's winner Roger Federer?", "person": "Venus Williams", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.bustle.com/p/is-wimbledon-prize-money-equal-venus-williams-was-instrumental-in-changing-the-tournaments-history-18159128", "source": "Op-ed, The Times, 'I'm Only a Second Class Champion' (2006)", "year": 2006, "context": "Williams's op-ed helped push Wimbledon to award equal prize money from 2007." }, { "ref": "218", "text": "It's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of America.", "person": "Patricia Arquette", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://variety.com/2015/film/news/patricia-arquette-comments-oscars-2015-controversy-1201439814/", "source": "Oscars acceptance speech (2015)", "year": 2015, "context": "Arquette's Best Supporting Actress speech, which put wage equality on a global stage." }, { "ref": "219", "text": "There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.", "person": "Madam C.J. Walker", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Madam_C._J._Walker", "source": "Widely attributed to Walker", "year": null, "context": "Walker, widely regarded as the first self-made female millionaire in America, on why she rejected the idea of an easy route to success." }, { "ref": "220", "text": "I am not ashamed of my past and don't intend to be ashamed of it.", "person": "Madam C.J. Walker", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Madam_C._J._Walker", "source": "Widely attributed to Walker", "year": null, "context": "Walker on her early life in poverty, which she never hid as her business grew." }, { "ref": "221", "text": "I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there, I was promoted to the washtub. From there, I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there, I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations.", "person": "Madam C.J. Walker", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Madam_C._J._Walker", "source": "Widely attributed to Walker", "year": null, "context": "Walker's own summary of her path from field labour to building a business empire." }, { "ref": "222", "text": "Don't sit down and wait for opportunities to come. Get up and make them.", "person": "Madam C.J. Walker", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Madam_C._J._Walker", "source": "Widely attributed to Walker", "year": null, "context": "Walker on taking initiative rather than waiting to be given a chance." }, { "ref": "223", "text": "I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.", "person": "Madam C.J. Walker", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Madam_C._J._Walker", "source": "Widely attributed to Walker", "year": null, "context": "Walker, who employed thousands of Black women as sales agents, on the wider purpose of her business." }, { "ref": "224", "text": "It's pretty hard for the Lord to guide you if you haven't made up your mind which way to go.", "person": "Madam C.J. Walker", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Women", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Madam_C._J._Walker", "source": "Widely attributed to Walker", "year": null, "context": "Walker on decisiveness as a precondition for faith or guidance to help you at all." }, { "ref": "225", "text": "I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.", "person": "Alan Turing", "field": "Science", "tags": [ "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing_Machinery_and_Intelligence", "source": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Mind journal (1950)", "year": 1950, "context": "From the paper that introduced what became known as the Turing test." }, { "ref": "226", "text": "That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.", "person": "Ada Lovelace", "field": "Science", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "", "source": "Widely cited from her personal correspondence", "year": null, "context": "Lovelace on her own mathematical ability, in a letter written decades before the world had a use for it." }, { "ref": "227", "text": "The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.", "person": "Ada Lovelace", "field": "Science", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note_G", "source": "Notes on the Analytical Engine (1843)", "year": 1843, "context": "From her notes translating an Italian paper on Babbage's Analytical Engine, now regarded as the first computer program." }, { "ref": "228", "text": "A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things.", "person": "Grace Hopper", "field": "Technology", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "", "source": "Widely attributed to Hopper", "year": null, "context": "Hopper on why she pushed computing into new, untested territory throughout her career." }, { "ref": "229", "text": "The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'", "person": "Grace Hopper", "field": "Technology", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "", "source": "Computerworld interview (1976)", "year": 1976, "context": "Hopper, a US Navy rear admiral and computer scientist, on resistance to change in data processing." }, { "ref": "230", "text": "Any girl can be glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid.", "person": "Hedy Lamarr", "field": "Science", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "", "source": "Widely attributed to Lamarr", "year": null, "context": "Lamarr, an actress who co-invented an early frequency-hopping technology used in wireless communication, on being seen only for her looks." }, { "ref": "231", "text": "I think it's very important to get more women into computing. My slogan is: Computing is too important to be left to men.", "person": "Karen Spärck Jones", "field": "Science", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "", "source": "Widely quoted, including in Cambridge University tributes", "year": null, "context": "Spärck Jones, whose research underpins modern search engines, on why computing needs more women in it." }, { "ref": "232", "text": "Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist, and I think it's a really good thing to remember.", "person": "Ginni Rometty", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://fortune.com/2011/10/05/ibms-ibms-ginni-rometty-growth-and-comfort-do-not-coexist/", "source": "Fortune interview (2011)", "year": 2011, "context": "Rometty, the first woman to lead IBM as CEO, on advice she carried through her career." }, { "ref": "233", "text": "I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.", "person": "Marissa Mayer", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "", "source": "Widely attributed to Mayer", "year": null, "context": "Mayer, an early Google executive and former Yahoo CEO, on taking on roles before feeling ready for them." }, { "ref": "234", "text": "I want to reframe the narrative for the industry and allow everyone to express themselves authentically.", "person": "Beckie Taylor", "field": "Technology", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://beckietaylor.com/about/", "source": "Her own website", "year": null, "context": "Taylor, founder of Voices in Tech, on her aim for the tech industry." }, { "ref": "235", "text": "I remember looking around and noticing the lack of women in the workspace and I knew this had to change.", "person": "Vanessa Vallely", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://yes-shecan.com/vanessa-vallely/", "source": "Interview, Yes She Can", "year": null, "context": "Vallely on what pushed her to found WeAreTheCity." }, { "ref": "236", "text": "I believe in embracing my vulnerability to inspire and impact others.", "person": "Beckie Taylor", "field": "Technology", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://beckietaylor.com/about/", "source": "Her own website", "year": null, "context": "Taylor, founder of Voices in Tech, on why she shares her own struggles publicly rather than only her successes." }, { "ref": "237", "text": "A name is how someone was introduced to the world, it usually carries meaning, often cultural or familial, and getting it wrong is a small persistent signal that you have not thought it worth the effort to get right.", "person": "Chris Compston", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Male Allies" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://chriscompston.substack.com/p/how-do-you-pronounce-your-name", "source": "How Do You Pronounce Your Name?, Substack (2026)", "year": 2026, "context": "Compston, a product coach, former Thoughtworks employee, and the founder of QuoteThem™, on why getting someone's name right is never a minor detail.", "noFeature": true }, { "ref": "238", "text": "The process has become so imbalanced that it risks excluding exactly the kind of inclusive, diverse, empathetic, resilient people the industry most needs.", "person": "Chris Compston", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Male Allies" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://chriscompston.substack.com/p/tech-hiring-is-unravelling", "source": "Tech Hiring is Unravelling, Substack (2025)", "year": 2025, "context": "Compston, a former Thoughtworks employee, on how broken tech hiring processes end up filtering out the people the industry needs most.", "noFeature": true }, { "ref": "239", "text": "We should all be able to bring our whole-selves to the workplace without fear of reprisal.", "person": "Chris Compston", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Male Allies" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://chriscompston.com/about", "source": "His own website, under 'Inclusivity'", "year": null, "context": "Compston, a former Thoughtworks employee, on one of his stated professional values as a coach to leaders.", "noFeature": true }, { "ref": "240", "text": "Good allies learn, show empathy, and we take action in ways that benefit the people around us.", "person": "Vince Pizzoni", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Male Allies", "Male Role Models" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://yes-shecan.com/why-we-need-more-male-advocates/", "source": "Why We Need More Male Advocates, #YesSheCan", "year": null, "context": "Pizzoni, a chemical engineering professor and winner of the Women's Engineering Society's Men As Allies award, on his working definition of allyship." }, { "ref": "241", "text": "I believe that when women lead HR, we bring a unique capacity to nurture talent while ruthlessly pursuing organisational goals, showing that empathy is a competitive superpower, not a soft skill.", "person": "Kav Sangha", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://yes-shecan.com/kav-sangha/", "source": "#YesSheCan profile", "year": null, "context": "Sangha, Vice President of Human Resources at Equifax UK and Ireland, on the value women bring to HR leadership." }, { "ref": "242", "text": "If you say nothing, nothing will change.", "person": "Sue Owen-Bailey", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://yes-shecan.com/sue-owen-bailey/", "source": "#YesSheCan profile", "year": null, "context": "Owen-Bailey, Head of ESG at Equifax, on speaking up rather than staying silent." }, { "ref": "245", "text": "Allyship is partnership, and things are always better when we do them together.", "person": "Lee Chambers", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Male Allies", "Male Role Models" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://wearetechwomen.com/celebrating-women-in-tech-week-with-lee-chambers-on-inclusion-allyship/", "source": "WeAreTechWomen interview", "year": null, "context": "Chambers, a business psychologist and founder of Male Allies UK, on why allyship works best as a joint effort rather than a solo one." }, { "ref": "246", "text": "Allyship doesn't fail because people don't care. It fails when the system around them makes it too hard to succeed.", "person": "Jade Anderson", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.maleallies.co.uk/why-allyship-fails-in-organisations-and-what-actually-makes-it-work/", "source": "Male Allies UK blog", "year": null, "context": "Anderson, co-founder of Male Allies UK, on why good intentions alone don't make allyship work." }, { "ref": "247", "text": "Bringing our true self is possible only when there is no fear of retribution or ridicule, and in fact appreciation and celebration of what makes each of us unique.", "person": "Roma Bindroo", "field": "Business", "tags": [ "Women" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://www.peoplematters.in/article/organisational-culture/employees-bring-their-authentic-selves-only-when-fear-leaves-the-workplace-roma-bindroo-50521", "source": "People Matters interview", "year": null, "context": "Bindroo, a DEI leader at Opella, on what it actually takes for people to bring their whole selves to work." }, { "ref": "248", "text": "There are three ways to ultimate success: the first way is to be kind, the second way is to be kind, and the third way is to be kind.", "person": "Fred Rogers", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Male Role Models" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "", "source": "Widely attributed to Rogers; exact original context to be confirmed", "year": null, "context": "Rogers spent decades modelling gentleness and patience to children on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, at a time when that wasn't seen as a masculine trait." }, { "ref": "249", "text": "Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle.", "person": "Fred Rogers", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Male Role Models" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "", "source": "The World According to Mister Rogers (2003)", "year": 2003, "context": "From Rogers' published collection of reflections on kindness and care." }, { "ref": "250", "text": "Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.", "person": "Denzel Washington", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Male Role Models", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "", "source": "Commencement address, Dillard University (2015)", "year": 2015, "context": "Washington on treating setbacks as part of moving forward rather than reasons to stop." }, { "ref": "251", "text": "Real men don't hurt women.", "person": "Barack Obama", "field": "Politics", "tags": [ "Male Role Models", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "", "source": "Remarks for the It's On Us campaign (2014)", "year": 2014, "context": "Obama speaking directly to young men about what strength actually looks like." }, { "ref": "252", "text": "Bravery, not perfection, gives us permission to be ourselves.", "person": "Reshma Saujani", "field": "Technology", "tags": [ "Women", "Asian" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.ted.com/talks/reshma_saujani_teach_girls_bravery_not_perfection", "source": "TED Talk, 'Teach girls bravery, not perfection' (2016)", "year": 2016, "context": "Saujani on why girls are so often taught to avoid risk in fields like computer science, and what that costs them." }, { "ref": "253", "text": "It's not your fault. You didn't do anything wrong. And you can get through this.", "person": "Ian Wright", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Male Role Models", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/ian-wright-i-didnt-realise-how-unhappy-i-was/", "source": "The Big Issue interview (2021)", "year": 2021, "context": "Wright speaking to young people about the abuse he suffered as a child, and about carrying that weight silently for decades before getting help." }, { "ref": "255", "text": "I knew I was going to have to outwork people, I knew I was going to have to outsmart.", "person": "Michael Oher", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Male Role Models", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.salon.com/2023/08/22/michael-oher-blind-side-when-your-backs-against-the-wall/", "source": "Salon interview (2023)", "year": 2023, "context": "Oher, an NFL offensive lineman, on the work ethic that carried him through a difficult upbringing." }, { "ref": "256", "text": "Small changes end up making a big difference. It's about being a lot nicer to each other. It's just saying, 'Treat people with kindness.'", "person": "Harry Styles", "field": "Music", "tags": [ "Male Role Models" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.musicweek.com/talent/read/small-changes-make-a-big-difference-harry-styles-tells-the-story-of-treat-people-with-kindness/078397", "source": "Music Week interview", "year": null, "context": "Styles on the origin of 'Treat People With Kindness', the phrase that became his own mantra and merchandise line." }, { "ref": "258", "text": "I'm naturally a quiet guy, but I work hard and I try to earn the respect from my teammates through my dedication and my hard work.", "person": "Eli Manning", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Male Role Models" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.giants.com/news/full-transcript-from-eli-manning-s-retirement-press-conference", "source": "Retirement press conference, Giants.com (2020)", "year": 2020, "context": "Manning, on the quiet, steady leadership style he built his career on rather than seeking the spotlight." }, { "ref": "259", "text": "I'm a soccer player, I'm Christian, and I'm gay. Those are things that people might say wouldn't go well together. But my family raised me to be an individual and to stand up for what I believe in.", "person": "Robbie Rogers", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Male Role Models", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Rogers", "source": "Personal blog post announcing his retirement and coming out (2013)", "year": 2013, "context": "Rogers, the first openly gay man to play in a major US men's professional sports league, on being all of who he is at once." }, { "ref": "260", "text": "I know that the ones who love us will miss us.", "person": "Keanu Reeves", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Male Role Models" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.vice.com/en/article/keanu-reeves-told-stephen-colbert-what-happens-when-we-die/", "source": "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2019)", "year": 2019, "context": "Reeves' answer when asked what he thinks happens when we die, widely shared for its quiet warmth." }, { "ref": "261", "text": "I remember that love conquers fear, always, and that to be a man means accepting myself, weaknesses and all. That's my true superpower.", "person": "Terry Crews", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Male Role Models", "Male Allies" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.movieguide.org/news-articles/how-terry-crews-found-strength-in-vulnerability.html", "source": "Tough: My Journey to True Power, memoir (2014)", "year": 2014, "context": "Crews, who has spoken openly about surviving sexual assault, on redefining strength as honesty rather than hardness. Included as both a role model and an ally standing with survivors." }, { "ref": "262", "text": "Being kind is a choice that you can make absolutely every single day.", "person": "Tom Hanks", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Male Role Models" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://abcnews.com/amp/Entertainment/tom-hanks-portrays-mister-rogers-beautiful-day-neighborhood/story?id=67149941", "source": "ABC News Nightline interview (2019)", "year": 2019, "context": "Hanks, promoting his role as Fred Rogers, on the choice at the centre of Rogers' philosophy." }, { "ref": "263", "text": "Blood, sweat and respect. First two you give, the last one you earn.", "person": "Dwayne Johnson", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Male Role Models" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://x.com/TheRock/status/222315099191382016", "source": "Own post on X/Twitter (2012)", "year": 2012, "context": "Johnson, in his own words, on why respect can't be demanded, only earned." }, { "ref": "264", "text": "The pressure I did feel before matches was self-inflicted. I didn't go out on court there thinking about what was being said in the papers and on TV about me.", "person": "Tim Henman", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Male Role Models" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.scotsman.com/sport/interview-tim-henman-tips-andy-murray-to-win-wimbledon-again-1448300", "source": "The Scotsman interview (2017)", "year": 2017, "context": "Henman, on where competitive pressure actually comes from, and choosing not to carry other people's noise onto the court." }, { "ref": "266", "text": "It is not an issue if a straight man plays rugby, and I hope my decision will ensure it is not an issue if a gay man plays rugby.", "person": "Gareth Thomas", "field": "Sport", "tags": [ "Male Role Models", "LGBTQ+" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/12/22/rugby.gareth.thomas.interview/", "source": "CNN interview (2009)", "year": 2009, "context": "Thomas, the former Wales rugby captain, on why he chose to come out publicly rather than stay silent about being gay." }, { "ref": "267", "text": "I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me... the highest positive is forgiveness.", "person": "Sidney Poitier", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Male Role Models", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sidney_Poitier", "source": "The Measure of a Man, memoir (2000)", "year": 2000, "context": "Poitier, the first Black man to win the Best Actor Oscar, on channelling anger rather than being consumed by it." }, { "ref": "268", "text": "Stop talking about it. I'm going to stop calling you a white man. And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman.", "person": "Morgan Freeman", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Male Role Models", "Black" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/morgan-freeman-defies-labels-14-12-2005/", "source": "60 Minutes interview with Mike Wallace, CBS (2005)", "year": 2005, "context": "Freeman, on why he resists being defined by racial labels rather than simply being known as himself." }, { "ref": "269", "text": "I recognize how hard this is for people, and I recognize how hard it is for me. But I have a certain set of skills that allow me to deal with this stuff. And I realized, with gratitude, optimism is sustainable.", "person": "Michael J. Fox", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Male Role Models", "Disabled" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-j-fox-on-parkinsons-and-how-he-finds-optimism-is-sustainable/", "source": "CBS Sunday Morning interview, featured in the documentary Still (2023)", "year": 2023, "context": "Fox, who has lived with Parkinson's disease since 1991, on how he sustains optimism through a degenerative illness." }, { "ref": "270", "text": "A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.", "person": "Christopher Reeve", "field": "Entertainment", "tags": [ "Male Role Models", "Disabled" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "", "source": "Still Me, autobiography (1998)", "year": 1998, "context": "Reeve, paralysed after a horse-riding accident in 1995, redefining heroism away from physical feats and towards endurance." }, { "ref": "271", "text": "I think ageing is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been.", "person": "David Bowie", "field": "Music", "tags": [ "Male Role Models" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Bowie", "source": "Quoted in Aaron Hicklin's obituary of Bowie", "year": null, "context": "Bowie, reflecting on growing older as becoming more truly himself rather than less." }, { "ref": "272", "text": "I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.", "person": "John Lennon", "field": "Music", "tags": [ "Male Role Models" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1980.jlpb.beatles.html", "source": "Playboy interview with David Sheff (1980)", "year": 1980, "context": "Lennon, in one of his final major interviews, on the limits of what anyone else can do for you." }, { "ref": "273", "text": "You're trying to take all this misunderstanding and loathing, and you're trying to turn it into love, which is the wonderful thing that happens when you're trying to make music out of the rough, hard, bad things.", "person": "Bruce Springsteen", "field": "Music", "tags": [ "Male Role Models" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "", "source": "Esquire interview (2018)", "year": 2018, "context": "Springsteen on what he's actually trying to do with the harder material in his songwriting." }, { "ref": "274", "text": "I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage. I am what I am. I love me!", "person": "Stevie Wonder", "field": "Music", "tags": [ "Male Role Models", "Disabled", "Black" ], "certainty": "attributed", "url": "", "source": "The Guardian interview (2012)", "year": 2012, "context": "Wonder, who has been blind since shortly after birth, on refusing to see either part of who he is as a limitation." }, { "ref": "275", "text": "Technology keeps improving my independence and quality of life.", "person": "Matthew Johnston", "field": "Technology", "tags": [ "Disabled" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-gb/insights/blog/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/Who-said-technology-isnt-romantic", "source": "Who said technology isn't romantic?, Thoughtworks blog", "year": null, "context": "Johnston, Thoughtworks' Global Disability Inclusion Lead and profoundly deaf since birth, on what assistive technology has meant for his own life." }, { "ref": "276", "text": "If it wasn't for the Live Caption feature, I don't think our relationship would have blossomed.", "person": "Matthew Johnston", "field": "Technology", "tags": [ "Disabled" ], "certainty": "confirmed", "url": "https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-gb/insights/blog/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/Who-said-technology-isnt-romantic", "source": "Who said technology isn't romantic?, Thoughtworks blog", "year": null, "context": "Johnston, Thoughtworks' Global Disability Inclusion Lead, on how live-captioning technology helped him build the relationship with his now-wife." }, { "ref": "277", "text": "I am lucky. 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