The Words of Extraordinary Women

"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion."---Lillian Hellman

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."---Maya Angelou

"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."---Mother Teresa

"Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together---and they call the result intuition."---Agatha Christie

"In these pages we can find quotations that are laugh-out-loud funny, quotations that reflect the joy of life or the pain of loss, some that make a point with words that are as subtle as a hammer and others that are as gentle as the brush of a feather. Some will make you think and some will make you wonder."---from the Foreword by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

Selected by Carolyn Warner, a leader in the fields of education and politics and a frequent public speaker, this inspiring collection features more than 700 quotes from more than 400 notable women, ranging from Charlotte Bronte and Helen Keller, to Eleanor Roosevelt, Mother Teresa, Simone de Beauvoir, and Hillary Clinton.

Carolyn Warner started her lifelong love of quotations during debating competition in high school. As she recounts, "I began amassing quotations, laboriously copied onto 3x5 index cards and cataloged by topic. And those little 3x5 cards were the basis of a collection that now exceeds 40,000 quotations...And, to this day, I've never found a better way to enhance the communications process than by reinforcing the points or concepts I wish to make with timely, memorable quotations from someone whose life, actions, character, fame, or notoriety makes whatever they have to say worth repeating."

Organized thematically, the selections explore a wide variety of subjects including: family, faith, character, education, leadership, the arts, humor, politics, self-image, women, and success. As Carolyn Warner notes, "It is my fond hope that these quotations and their topic areas will form a basic library for writers, speakers, thinkers, or just plain readers of all ages. I hope that all who use this book will be motivated to perhaps start their own collections of quotable quotes, their own assemblage of words that motivate, inform, inspire, challenge, entertain, and validate."

The Words of Extraordinary Women is a fascinating compendium of provocative thoughts that celebrates the most important female voices throughout history.

Carolyn Warner is Founder and President of Corporate Education Consulting, Inc. (CECi), whose clients include Fortune 500 companies, foundations, and numerous national associations. Warner was a Congressional appointee to the National Skills Standards Board (NSSB) and was a member of the National Commission on the Public Service (the Volcker Commission). She also serves as national treasurer of Jobs for America's Graduates and is past President of the Arizona Women's Forum. Warner served for 3 terms as Arizona's elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Warner is an acclaimed public speaker, delivering numerous keynote presentations every year, and her speaking career generated her lifelong fascination with quotations. She is the author of 4 books, including the reference volume The Last Word, A Treasury of Women's Quotes.