你足够聪明，足够坚定，也足够有办法

编者按：

去年，2026趁早效率手册第一次出品，备受欢迎。

我们从不同领域、不同人生轨迹的杰出女性身上，辑录她们真实的表达。

今年，这个版本继续。

2027趁早效率手册中的十二位女性人物来自完全不同的领域：哲学、文学、科学、体育、发明、思想与公共行动等。

波伏娃谈自由，阿迪契谈自我定义，居里夫人谈求索与坚持，塞雷娜谈挫折之后重新站起，桑塔格提醒我们保持好奇、保持行动，阿伦特不断追问“我们正在做什么”，而珍·古道尔则把目光落回每一个普通日子的选择。

她们共同组成女性思想光谱，提供了人生范本，原来一个人可以这样思考、这样选择、这样行动。

1月

Simone de Beauvoir

西蒙·德·波伏娃

法国哲学家、作家、女性主义思想家

01. I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

我希望每一个人的生命都是纯粹、透明的自由。

02. One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

女人不是天生的，而是后天形成的。

03. Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

今日即改变生活，不要把未来当做赌注，此刻行动，无需迟疑。

04. To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

选择坚守本心，与选择拥抱自由，本是同一件事。

05. I am awfully greedy, I want everything from life.

我满怀渴求，想要生命里的一切。

06. To will oneself free is also to will others free.

意欲自身自由，亦当期许他人自由。

07. I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth.

因心中热爱真理，我甘愿抛下确凿定论给予的安逸。

08. I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely.

我足够聪明，足够坚定，也足够有办法，因此，没有任何人能够完全定义我。

09. I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

我无法真正理解无限，却从不甘心接受有限。

2月

Wangari Maathai

旺加里·马塔伊

肯尼亚环境活动家、生物学家、诺贝尔和平奖获得者

10. It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference.

改变来自每个人的微小行动，这才是真正的力量所在。

11. In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness.

历史进程中，总有一刻，人类被召唤迈向更高的意识层次。

12. Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing.

挖坑、种树、浇水、让它存活——做到这一切，才算真正付诸行动。

13. I don't really need to be remembered. I want people to act.

我不在乎是否被记住，我更期盼大家行动起来。

14. African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are.

非洲女性需要知道，做真实的自己，本就没有任何问题。

15. No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.

无论身处何地，无论拥有怎样的能力，都尽自己所能。

16. We all share one planet and are one humanity.

人类共居同一颗星球，命运一体。

17. What people see as fearlessness is really persistence.

世人眼中的无畏，实则是长久坚持。

3月

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

奇马曼达·恩戈齐·阿迪契

尼日利亚作家、公共知识分子

18. Teach her that the idea of "gender roles" is absolute nonsense.

告诉她，"性别角色"这个概念根本就是无稽之谈。

19. Culture does not make people. People make culture.

并非文化塑造人，而是人塑造文化。

20. Teach her not to attach value to difference.

不必用高低评判人与人之间的差异。

21. If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

一旦你开始考虑讨人喜欢，你就无法诚实地讲述你自己的故事。

22. Stories matter. Many stories matter.

故事自有重量，多元叙事不可或缺。

23. The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are.

性别的问题在于它规定了我们应该如何，而非承认我们本来的样子。

24. Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories.

我们的生命与文明，由无数交织的故事构筑而成。

25. My writing comes from melancholy, from rage, from curiosity, from hope.

我的文字，源自感伤、愤慨、好奇与希望。

26. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower and to humanize.

故事曾被用来剥夺与诽谤，但也可以被用来赋予力量与彰显人性。

4月

Marie Curie

玛丽·居里

波兰裔法国物理学家、化学家

27. Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

人生从无容易可言，但那又如何？我们必须坚韧，更要笃信。

28. I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

我被告知，进步之路既不迅速，也不轻松。

29. Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

少些对人的好奇，多些对思想的探究。

30. You cannot hope to build a better world without improving individuals.

不先完善个体，便无从构筑更美好的世界。

31. Science has great beauty. It is in its pursuit that humanity gains endless blessings.

科学自有宏大之美，人类于求索间收获无尽福祉。

32. One never notices what has been done, one can only see what remains to be done.

人从不会看见已然完成的事，眼中只剩尚未完成的前路。

33. Humanity also needs dreamers.

人类需要追梦者。

34. In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

在科学之中，我们该相信客观事实，而非人本身。

35. Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.

镭不属于任何人的财富，它是一种元素，归全人类共有。

5月

Serena Williams

塞雷娜·威廉姆斯

美国职业网球运动员

36. I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.

冠军的定义不在于胜利，而在于跌倒后如何重新站起。

37. I don't like to lose — at anything.

我不喜欢输——任何事情都不。

38. Every woman's success should be an inspiration to another.

每一位女性的成就，都应当成为另一位女性前行的力量。

39. I've had to learn to fight all my life — got to learn to keep smiling.

我这一生都在学会抗争，也学着永远保持微笑。

40. I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.

幸运的是，无论我内心有多少恐惧，求胜的欲望始终更强烈。

41. Being black and a woman in this sport, I really had to fight to get my respect.

作为这项运动中的黑人女性，我必须奋力争取属于自己的尊重。

42. I've grown most not from victories but setbacks.

让我成长最多的，不是胜利，而是挫折。

43. I love how I look. I am a full woman and I'm strong, and I'm powerful, and I'm beautiful at the same time.

我热爱自己的模样。我是完整的女性，强大、有力量，同时无比美丽。

44. Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent countless hours on the court working for my one moment in time.

成功与运气无关，是无数日夜在球场的苦练，才换来我的巅峰时刻。

6月

Florence Nightingale

弗洛伦斯·南丁格尔

英国护理学家、统计学家

45. Nursing is an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

护理是一门艺术，所需的专注与沉淀，不亚于画家、雕塑家打磨作品。

46. It is much cheaper to promote health than to maintain people in sickness.

维护健康的成本，远低于医治病痛的开销。

47. How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

在恐惧的笼罩下，人能做成的事少之又少。

48. I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions.

情感若止于言语便是浪费，它们都应被提炼为行动。

49. Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

若没有人对现状感到不满，世界便永远无法变得更好。

50. I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.

我从不放过任何倡导实际行动的机会，哪怕再微小。

51. Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

忧虑、不确定、等待、期盼、对意外的恐惧，比任何体力消耗都更伤害一个人。

52. Whenever I am infuriated, I revenge myself with a diagram.

每当我愤懑难平，我就绘制图表，用数据诉说真相。

7月

Hedy Lamarr

海蒂·拉玛

奥地利裔美国演员、发明家

53. All creative people want to do the unexpected.

所有有创造力的人，都渴望做出乎意料的事。

54. Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

我的自信与生俱来，我十五岁时便拥有十足自信。

55. I love to invent things. It's a passion.

我热爱发明创造，这是我毕生热忱。

56. My mind is my best friend.

我最珍贵的挚友，是我自己的头脑。

57. I'm fifty-one years old, but I’m not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.

我已经五十一岁，但人生远未落幕，仍想奔赴更多精彩。

58. I was born with an inventive mind.

我生来便拥有乐于创造的头脑。

59. Hope and curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees.

对未来满怀期许与好奇，远比安稳的既定承诺更珍贵。

60. The brains of people are more interesting than the looks, I think.

我认为，一个人的智识比外貌更有趣。

61. The world is not just about glamour, it needs ideas.

世界不只流于浮华表象，更需要思想与创造。

8月

Susan Sontag

苏珊·桑塔格

美国作家、评论家

62. I want to be a writer of novels, a lover, a political person, a traveler — I want it all.

我想执笔写小说，想热烈去爱，想投身公共事业，想走遍四方 —— 世间种种，我皆想要。

63. Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

去做事。保持专注，保持好奇。不要等待灵感的推动，也不要等待社会的认可。

64. I don't think people are searching for the meaning of life. They are searching for the experience of being alive.

人们追寻的不是生命的意义，而是鲜活的生活体验。

65. Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

深爱文字，推敲字句，用心注视整个世界。

66. The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

真正有意思的答案，往往会瓦解原本的问题。

67. Books are the way that the dead communicate with the living.

书籍是逝者与生者沟通的方式。

68. I feel like I'm a verb rather than a noun.

我不愿被名词定义，我更愿意做一个动词。

69. Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

智识其实是一种品味：对思想的品味。

70. All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

一切认知，始于拒绝全盘接纳世界的表象。

9月

Oprah Winfrey

奥普拉·温弗瑞

美国主持人、媒体企业家、慈善家

71. The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

你能踏上的最大冒险，就是去过你梦想中的生活。

72. Turn your wounds into wisdom.

将你的伤口化为智慧。

73. You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.

你不会成为你想要的，而会成为你相信的。

74. Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

真正的赤诚，是在没有人知晓的情况下，依然做正确的事。

75. Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it.

每次你说出你想要的或相信的，你是第一个听到它的人。

76. Self-worth comes from one thing — thinking that you are worthy.

自我价值只来自一件事——认为自己值得。

77. Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

与支持你向上的人为伴。

78. You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

你在生命中得到的，是你鼓起勇气去追寻的。

10月

Hannah Arendt

汉娜·阿伦特

德裔美国思想家、社会理论者

79. One deed, and sometimes one word, suffices to change every constellation.

一个行动，有时一句话，就足以改变一切格局。

80. What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.

我的主张很简单：时刻思考自身正在做的事。

81. The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

可悲的真相是，绝大多数恶行，都来自从未决意行善、也无心作恶的普通人。

82. Action, to be free, must be for something that is not yet.

真正自由的行动，永远指向尚未到来的全新可能。

83. The life of the mind is the only life worth living.

思想充盈的生活是唯一值得过的生活。

84. The power of the individual lies in the capacity to act.

人真正的力量，在于敢于行动。

85. To think and to be fully alive are the same.

思考与真正活着，是同一件事。

86. There is no thought without memory.

没有记忆，便没有思想。

87. Action is the only way to create something new in the world.

行动是在世界中创造新事物的唯一方式。

11月

Maria Mitchell

玛利亚·米歇尔

美国天文学家、教育家

88. I was born of only ordinary capacity, but of extraordinary persistence.

我天资平平，唯有持之以恒的韧劲异于常人。

89. The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power.

学问的世界如此广阔，而人类的灵魂在能力上如此有限。

90. No woman should say "I am but a woman".

没有女性应该说" 我不过是个女人"。

91. We especially need imagination in science.

科学尤其需要想象力。

92. Question everything. Every star, every wave, every blade of grass.

质疑一切，每一颗星，每一道浪，每一片草叶。

93. Until women throw off blind reverence for authority, they will never grow.

女性唯有挣脱对权威的盲从，才能真正成长。

94. When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.

当我们被琐事烦扰，仰望星空，便会看清自身的渺小。

95. We are women studying together.

我们女性一同探索宇宙星河。

96. The more one looks, the more one sees.

看得越多，能窥见的天地便越广阔。

12月

Jane Goodall

珍·古道尔

英国灵长类动物学家、人类学家、环境保护倡导者

97. You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.

你无法度过任何一天而不对周围的世界产生影响。

98. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

你的行为会产生影响，你必须决定自己想要带来哪种影响。

99. The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

对我们未来最大的威胁是麻木。

100. Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help.

只有理解，我们才会关心；只有关心，我们才会帮助。

101. Every individual makes a difference.

每个个体都在创造改变。

102. Change happens by listening.

改变始于倾听。

103. I do have reasons for hope: our clever brains, the resilience of nature, the indomitable human spirit.

我有理由怀抱希望：我们聪慧的大脑、自然的韧性、人类不屈的精神。

104. You have to hold on to hope, and you must never, ever give up.

你必须紧握希望，永远、永远不要放弃。

105. What matters is what we choose to do each small, ordinary day.

真正重要的，是我们在平凡日常里做出的每一次选择。

愿这些话语出现在你每天翻开手册的时刻，也出现在那些犹豫、受挫、重新开始的时刻。

愿你从中获得的，不只是鼓励，还有判断世界的视角，行动的力量。