"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." Madam Walker
"I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come." Madam Walker
“If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.” Grace Murray Hopper
"If you can do it, do it..If you can achieve it, achieve it." Bessie Blount
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained." Marie Curie
"We hear much of chivalry of men towards women; but ... it vanishes like dew before the summer sun when one of us comes into competition with the manly sex. Let a woman sit, weep, wring her hands, and exult in her own helplessness, and the modern knight buckles on his imaginary breastplate and draws his sword in her behalf; but when the woman girds up her loins for the battle of life, ready to fight like a lioness, if need be, to put food in the mouths of her children, let her select for her field the living-room or the cooking range." Martha Coston