International Women's Day 2026

Happy International Women’s Day! 

I’m in deadline mode for Wilds of Chaos and Indigo Rain, Ink of the Fae 3, but I had to stop and mark IWD. 

'You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.'

-Mary Oliver

'Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. 

I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.'

-Toni Morrison

‘Great minds discuss ideas,

Average minds discuss events,

Small minds discuss people.’

-Eleanor Roosevelt

'Abandon the cultural myth that all female friendships must be bitchy, toxic, or competitive. 

This myth is like heels and purses: pretty but designed to slow women down.'

-Roxane Gay

‘I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart.

I am. I am. I am.’

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.

'Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

The most revolutionary thing one can do is 

always to proclaim loudly what is happening.'

-Rosa Luxembourg

'Friendship is everything.

Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government.

It is almost the equal of family.

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

‘I am not free while any woman is unfree,

Even when her shackles are very different from my own.’

-Audre Lorde

'Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. 

Women are afraid that men will kill them.'

-Margaret Atwood

‘She has a voice. If you can’t hear it, 

It’s because you’re too busy talking.’

-Amani Al-Khatahtbeh

‘I’d rather regret the things I’ve done

Than regret the things I haven’t done?’

-Lucille Ball

‘What’s the greatest lesson a woman should learn?

That since day one, she’s already had everything she needs within herself.

It’s the world that convinced her she did not.’

-Rupi Kaur

‘One individual cannot possibly make a difference alone.

It is individual effort, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference––

All the difference in the world!’

-Jane Goodall