Paris Hilton Dominates the News, But Let's Remember the Words of Intelligent Women

Paris Hilton is getting far too much media attention, for no real reason. In a nutshell: she got a DUI, acted flip about the charge and drove her Bentley even though her license was suspended, got caught, placed the blame on her publicist for not supposedly not explaining to her that she isn't supposed to drive, was sentenced to serve some jail time, whined about that, went to jail for a few days, got sprung out of jail, got ordered back to court, and was then told to go back to jail. The news of Paris going in and out of jail has clogged up all of the national and local television channels. Let us try to keep in mind that there are women in the world that deserve to have their story told because they could actually make a positive impact upon the world with their profound thoughts. In the spirit of celebrating women who have utilized their intellect to make a difference in the world, here are some brilliant quotes from some extraordinary women.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes."
Clare Boothe Luce

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
Gloria Steinem

Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
Susan B. Anthony

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
Elizabeth Blackwell, The first woman in the U.S. to become a physician

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.
Jane Fonda

Don't compromise yourself. You are all that you've got.
Janis Joplin