![]() ![]() – Coco Chanel Courage doesn’t always roar. – Charlotte Whitton The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. – Audrey Hepburn Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half their inferior. – Margaret Thatcher Nothing is impossible. – Florence Griffith Joyner Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. – Hillary Clinton When anyone tells me I can’t do anything … I’m just not listening anymore. – Amelia Earhart It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children’s and grandchildren’s fates, are decided. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others. – Gloria Steinem Women must try to do as men have tried. – Mae West We have to become the men we wanted to marry. – Coco Chanel Be the type of girl that climbs the ladder wrong by wrong. – Maya Angelou I don’t care what you think about me. – Eleanor Roosevelt I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. – Ingrid Bergman A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. – Mother Theresa Success is getting what you want happiness is wanting what you get. – Sarah Ban Breathnach We can do no great things, only small things with great love. – Byron Katie Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic self. – Sally Berger It’s not your job to like me, it’s mine. – Margaret Thatcher The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ![]() – Ann Richards If you want something said, ask a man if you want something done, ask a woman. She just did it backward and in high heels. – Maya Angelou After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. – Malala Yousafzai Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. In the first 72 hours, the video accumulated more than 195,000 views and 250 comments.We realize the importance of our voices only when they are silenced. On July 23rd, 2013, YouTuber Disco the Parakeet uploaded a montage of video clips featuring a parakeet named Disco attempting to say "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition" (shown below). On April 30th, 2012, Redditor guynumberthree submitted a post to the /r/AskHistorians subreddit, questioning whether anyone expected the Spanish Inquisition in the past. On February 7th, 2010, a Facebook page titled "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition" was launched. On July 14th, the online retailer ThinkGeek began selling Spanish Inquisition T-shirts with the words "The Spanish Inquisition / Expected by Nobody Since 1970" printed on a black shield (shown below). On February 14th, 2009, Yahoo Answers member Saturday submitted a post asking the meaning of the question "I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition," to which user Shaker replied that it is used to complain about being asked too many questions. On July 24th, 2007, YouTuber chillial uploaded a video containing three different Spanish Inquisition Monty Python’s Flying Circus sketches (shown below), which garnered upwards of 1.56 million views and 1,800 comments in the next six years. On May 18th, Urban Dictionary user jiffy pop submitted an entry for “spanish inqusition,” which referenced theMonty Python’s Flying Circus sketch. On May 9th, 2004, YTMND user SailorAmaya submitted a page featuring a screen captured image from the sketch (shown below) with a looped audio track playing the phrase “Nobody expects a Spanish Inquisition!” In the next nine years, more than 40 additional Spanish Inquisition YTMNDs were created. On June 29th, 2000, user Lesietta Wehs submitted a fanfiction inspired by the Monty Python sketch and set in the Star Wars science fiction universe. On several occasions throughout the sketch, an English townsman says “I didn’t expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition” in retort to a woman's incessant questioning, which would prompt a group of men dressed in Spanish Catholic robes to storm into the house and proclaim “Nobody expects a Spanish Inquisition!”Īs one of the most celebrated sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus, the catchphrase has been referenced and parodied in many other works of comedy and fiction in popular culture, beginning with its inclusion in Issue #3 of the DC comic book series Batman Family published in January 1976. On September 22nd, 1970, the first “Spanish Inquisition” sketch was aired in Season 2 Episode 2 of Monty Python’s Flying Circus (shown below).
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