Badass Affirmations. Becca Anderson

      I am my own Universe; I am my own Professor.

      —Sylvia Ashton-Warner, an educator and artist who adapted British teaching methods for use with Maori children in New Zealand; she then drew on this experience of merging two vastly different cultures for her personal writing and poetry

      Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

      —Alice Childress, an award-winning playwright, novelist, and Tony-nominated actress who started writing after seeing how few good roles there were for African American women in theater

       Affirmation Station

      I rise above hardships.

      I take care of myself.

      I am satisfied with my accomplishments.

      I look back on my life like a good day’s work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

      —Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses), a farmer whose detailed, colorful, rustic paintings were displayed at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art and around the country

      I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty … but I am too busy thinking about myself.

      —Edith Sitwell, the legendary writer who, when asked at the age of four about her aspirations for her future, said that she wanted to be a genius when she grew up

      By whom?

      —Dorothy Parker, sassy satirist, critic, poet, and Academy Award-nominated writer, on being told that she was “outspoken”

      My mother always told me I wouldn’t amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, “Just wait.”

      —Judy Tenuta, the first standup comic to win the American Comedy Award for “Best Female Comedian”

      Did you hear what I said? It was very profound.