If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

—Elizabeth Janeway

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

—Elizabeth Janeway

Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.

—Elizabeth Janeway

If you’re gonna fret, fret over something you can change. Then stop fretting and do something about it.

—Kimberly Willis Holt in My Louisiana Sky

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

—Russell Baker

Women hope men will change after marriage, but they don't; men hope women won't change, but they do.

—Bettina Arndt

They tell you you’ll forget how it used to be. You’ll get used to it, that it’s better to move on. They don’t realize you can’t. You’re not the same person anymore.

—Amanda Sun in Ink

Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love