Quotes of: Africanamerican-women Keyword

There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype ...

Jessica Valenti

Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out a...

Tracy Chevalier

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Ninon de L'Enclos

The stereotypes really play into what kinds of companies women can get funded for.

Anita Borg

Women have this obsession with shoes.

Alexandra Paul

Women have a predestination to suffering.

Bela Lugosi

Half of my employees are women.

Christie Hefner

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

John Galliano

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

Sarah Jessica Parker

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.

Thomas Beecham

We women have to stick together.

Chelsea Handler

I don't mind demanding women.

Chris Noth

I don't like actors, I like women.

Carlo Ponti

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

No one knows what women want!

Ian Somerhalder

It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.

Lindsey Vonn

To be outspoken, or different at all, is a problem for women.

Megan Fox

Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

Victoria Woodhull

Whatever is deeply, essentially female--the life in a woman's expression, the feel of her flesh, the shape of her breasts, the transformations after childbirth of her skin--is being reclassified as ugly, and ugliness as disease. These qualities are a...

The Beauty Myth

Consumer culture is best supported by markets made up of sexual clones, men who want objects and women who want to be objects, and the object desired ever-changing, disposable, and dictated by the market. The beautiful object of consumer pornography ...

The Beauty Myth

Inside the maize mill, the owners no longer had any use for a broom. The hungry people kept the floors cleaner than a wet mop. At the beginning of the month, the mill was packed full of those waiting for fallen scraps. The crowd would part long enoug...

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind