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Quotes of the Day for 1 May 2005 - Wild Women

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was born at Cork, Ireland on this day in 1830. She came from a family of agitators (against the British) who fled to America where she became a militant and effective labor organizer. Martha "Calamity" Jane Cannary was born at Princeton, Missouri on this day in 1852, and faced the Sioux, a smallpox epidemic, and the Wild West in men's clothing and plenty of attitude. To celebrate their spirit, here are a few quotes from wild women.

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.
     - Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811 - 1896

I used to be Snow White - but I drifted.
     - Mae West, 1892 - 1980

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'Id rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'
     - Tallulah Bankhead, 1903 - 1968

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
     - Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, 1830 - 1930

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
     - Marilyn Monroe, 1926 - 1962

People got snoopy so I told them lies to hear their tongues wag. The women are all snakes and none of them I can call friends.
     - Martha "Calamity" Jane Cannary, 1852 - 1903

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