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Search ResultsFound 100 quotes matching your search: (limited to first 100 results.)  I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa. Author: Aaron Eckhart
| | Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures. Author: Aaron Eckhart
| | What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences. Author: Abbe Pierre
| | There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be. Author: Abbey Lincoln
| | If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. Author: Abigail Adams
| | The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. Author: Abraham Maslow
| | I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face. Author: Adam Ant
| | You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not. Author: Adam Sandler
| | The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving. Author: Adelaide Anne Procter
| | If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families. Author: Adriana Lima
| | In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy. Author: Adrienne Barbeau
| | Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women. Author: Adrienne Rich
| | The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. Author: Adrienne Rich
| | The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers. Author: Adrienne Rich
| | I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels. Author: Agnes Macphail
| | I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. Author: Agnes Macphail
| | If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it. Author: Agnes Macphail
| | If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves. Author: Agnes Macphail
| | It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name. Author: Agnes Macphail
| | Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it. Author: Agnes Macphail
| | Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate. Author: Agnes Macphail
| | So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also. Author: Agnes Smedley
| | Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment. Author: Agnes Smedley
| | And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now. Author: Ahmed Chalabi
| | Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament. Author: Ahmed Yassin
| | You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on. Author: Aisha Tyler
| | If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account. Author: Al Goldstein
| | There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off. Author: Al Goldstein
| | They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together. Author: Al Roker
| | I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city. Author: Alan Autry
| | Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money. Author: Alan Ayckbourn
| | I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public. Author: Albert Ellis
| | There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. Author: Albert Ellis
| | The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography. Author: Alberto Korda
| | A women's greatest asset is her beauty. Author: Alex Comfort
| | Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can. Author: Alexander Pope
| | Women have this obsession with shoes. Author: Alexandra Paul
| | People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. Author: Alexei Sayle
| | Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money. Author: Alexis Arguello
| | Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
| | Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single. Author: Alice Cary
| | Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold. Author: Alice Hoffman
| | They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined. Author: Alice Hoffman
| | Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. Author: Alice Paul
| | The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women. Author: Alice Paul
| | There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it. Author: Alice Paul
| | This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different. Author: Alice Paul
| | We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. Author: Alice Paul
| | Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf. Author: Alice S. Rossi
| | It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom. Author: Alice Walker
| | The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. Author: Alice Walker
| | Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love. Author: Alicia Machado
| | I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women. Author: Alison Bechdel
| | America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed. Author: Allen Boyd
| | Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality. Author: Allen Boyd
| | One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress. Author: Allison Janney
| | If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious. Author: Alphonse Karr
| | It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women. Author: Alva Myrdal
| | I think at the end of the day this movie is respecting what we as women go through as we grow up. The experiences, what we deal with, other women, things about images, things that we deal with as women. Author: Amber Tamblyn
| | This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying. Author: Amber Tamblyn
| | Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. Author: Ambrose Bierce
| | Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of. Author: Ambrose Bierce
| | It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. Author: Amelia Barr
| | Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others. Author: Amelia Earhart
| | Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. Author: Amelia Earhart
| | Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others. Author: Amelia Earhart
| | You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It's good. Author: Amelie Mauresmo
| | Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing. Author: Amy Clampitt
| | Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. Author: Amy Clampitt
| | I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves. Author: Amy Poehler
| | More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady. Author: Amy Sedaris
| | Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear. Author: Anatole France
| | I think hidden underneath a lot of teachers are very sexy women. Author: Andie MacDowell
| | I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men. Author: Andie MacDowell
| | Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences. Author: Andre Maurois
| | Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it. Author: Andrea Dworkin
| | Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating. Author: Andrea Dworkin
| | Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it. Author: Andrea Dworkin
| | Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us. Author: Andrea Dworkin
| | No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it. Author: Andrea Dworkin
| | The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it. Author: Andrea Dworkin
| | While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. Author: Andrea Dworkin
| | Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not. Author: Andrea Dworkin
| | Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do. Author: Andrea Dworkin
| | "Women's fashion" is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women. Author: Andrea Dworkin
| | You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. Author: Andrea Dworkin
| | Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women. Author: Andrea Jung
| | Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top. Author: Andrea Jung
| | In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so! Author: Andrew Cohen
| | It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance. Author: Andrew Cohen
| | Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity. Author: Andrew Cohen
| | I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing. Author: Andrew Eldritch
| | In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites. Author: Andrew Greeley
| | The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women. Author: Andrew Greeley
| | They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that. Author: Andy Garcia
| | We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get. Author: Andy Wachowski
| | I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along. Author: Ang Lee
| | In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. Author: Angela Carter
| | To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women. Author: Angela Davis
| | I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education. Author: Angela Merkel
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Found 100 quotes containing your search: (limited to first 100 results.) | Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. Author: Amelia Earhart
| | That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too. Author: Angela Ruggiero
| | Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered? Author: Angelina Grimke
| | We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down. Author: Angelina Grimke
| | Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education. Author: Angelina Grimke
| | All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough. Author: Angelina Jolie
| | I always play women I would date. Author: Angelina Jolie
| | I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine. Author: Angelina Jolie
| | I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive. Author: Angelina Jolie
| | They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that. Author: Angelina Jolie
| | I dress for women and I undress for men. Author: Angie Dickinson
| | Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow. Author: Angie Dickinson
| | Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant. Author: Ani DiFranco
| | Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand. Author: Anita Borg
| | None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own. Author: Anita Borg
| | Women will change the corporation more than we expect. Author: Anita Borg
| | Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. Author: Anita Brookner
| | It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to. Author: Anita Brookner
| | Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. Author: Anita Brookner
| | Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office. Author: Anita Diament
| | But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities. Author: Anita Hill
| | I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women. Author: Anita Hill
| | I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community. Author: Anita Hill
| | Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways. Author: Ann Beattie
| | There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around. Author: Ann Oakley
| | The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family. Author: Ann Robinson
| | I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten. Author: Ann Rule
| | I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away. Author: Ann Rule
| | Let's face it, there are no plain women on television. Author: Anna Ford
| | Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours. Author: Anna Freud
| | Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations. Author: Anna Garlin Spencer
| | The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement. Author: Anna Garlin Spencer
| | Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women. Author: Anna H. Shaw
| | How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy. Author: Anna Held
| | Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age. Author: Anna Held
| | Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do. Author: Anna Held
| | A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value. Author: Anna Howard Shaw
| | If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty. Author: Anna Howard Shaw
| | If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better. Author: Anna Julia Cooper
| | A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married. Author: Anna Magnani
| | New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage. Author: Anna Quindlen
| | The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with. Author: Anna Quindlen
| | Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number. Author: Anna Quindlen
| | I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it. Author: Anne Hutchinson
| | If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court? Author: Anne Hutchinson
| | Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
| | We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be. Author: Anne Roiphe
| | Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all. Author: Annette Bening
| | In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down. Author: Annette Funicello
| | For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most. Author: Annie Besant
| | I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful. Author: Annie Leibovitz
| | Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit. Author: Anthony Braxton
| | Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. Author: Anthony Burgess
| | Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. Author: Antoinette Brown Blackwell
| | I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history. Author: Antonia Fraser
| | King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them. Author: Antonia Fraser
| | Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid. Author: Antonia Fraser
| | My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor. Author: Antonia Fraser
| | Old women should not seek to be perfumed. Author: Archilochus
| | It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes. Author: Arianna Huffington
| | The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers. Author: Arianna Huffington
| | These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them. Author: Aristophanes
| | If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. Author: Aristotle Onassis
| | Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done. Author: Arlie Hochschild
| | The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects. Author: Arlie Hochschild
| | Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women. Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
| | In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits. Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
| | Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique. Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
| | When I first started editing GQ, it gave the impression of being, and in fact was, a gay magazine. There were female models in it and there were women on the cover, but the boys were always much, much more beautiful than the girls. Author: Art Cooper
| | When I was a young man, I had a mentor on women and he said when you meet a woman that you think you like, don't ask her for a drink. Take her out for a bowl of soup. Because a woman who can enjoy a bowl of soup is bound to be more interesting. Author: Art Cooper
| | We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men. Author: Arthur Ashe
| | If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. Author: Arthur Capper
| | Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
| | Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one. Author: Arthur Golden
| | There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution. Author: Arthur Keith
| | Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
| | The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism. Author: Asa Hutchinson
| | The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. Author: Ashley Montagu
| | Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests. Author: Audre Lorde
| | Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. Author: Audre Lorde
| | But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women. Author: Audre Lorde
| | I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't. Author: Audre Lorde
| | In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men. Author: Audre Lorde
| | We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other. Author: Audre Lorde
| | When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture. Author: Audre Lorde
| | But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it. Author: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
| | It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world. Author: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
| | Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead. Author: Augustus Y. Napier
| | Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care. Author: Augustus Y. Napier
| | I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
| | Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them. Author: Ayrton Senna
| | I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. Author: B. R. Ambedkar
| | I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun. Author: Babe Ruth
| | It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office. Author: Barbara Boxer
| | More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. Author: Barbara Boxer
| | The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity. Author: Barbara Boxer
| | Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose. Author: Barbara Boxer
| | Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that. Author: Barbara Bush
| | I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice. Author: Barbara Bush
| | A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be. Author: Barbara Cartland
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