Diana Griffing

“Your fathers have lived, died, and have done their work, and have done much of it well. You live and must die, and you must do your work. You have no right to enjoy a child’s share in the labor of your fathers, unless your children are to be blest by your labors. You have no right to wear out and waste the hard-earned fame of your fathers to cover your indolence. Sydney Smith tells us that men seldom eulogize the wisdom and virtues of their fathers, but to excuse some folly or wickedness of their own.”
― Fredrick Douglas

“Wonder Woman left Paradise Island to fight fascism with feminism.”
― Jill Lepore, The Secret History of Wonder Woman

“Girls are also human beings, a point often overlooked.”
― Jill Lepore, The Secret History of Wonder Woman

“Wonder Woman isn't only an Amazonian princess with badass boots. She's the missing link in a chain of events that begins with the woman suffrage campaigns of the 1910s and ends with the troubled place of feminism fully a century later. Feminism made Wonder Woman. And then Wonder Woman remade feminism....”
― Jill Lepore, The Secret History of Wonder Woman