Quotes of: Africanamerican-women Keyword

I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.

Mandy Moore

The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.

Marlo Thomas

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.

Natasha Leggero

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.

Steven Pinker

It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.

Taye Diggs

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

Yancy Butler

The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door of the doll's house; a generation ago, women turned their backs on the consumer heaven of the isolated multiapplianced home; bu...

The Beauty Myth

The new ideal of virginity and widowhood opened up a new era of sympathetic collaboration between men and women, and for male-female friendship. By establishing a category of women who were understood to be off-limits with respect to romantic entangl...

Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women

Encountering gender apartheid and waged slavery shook me to my roots more than half a century ago in Afghanistan. Oh, the women of Afghanistan, the women of the Muslim world. I was no feminist -- but now, thinking back, I see how much I learned there...

An American Bride in Kabul

So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization b...

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage. Patriarchy has not disappeared; it has changed form. In the old form, women were forced...

The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home

When we fall in love at a glance, the question we should ask ourselves (and this would apply to both men and women) is, What is it that we long for? Or perhaps, What are we lacking so that we can turn life in the direction we want? Creativity? Confid...

Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion, and Romantic Obsession

It is a naive sort of feminism that insists that women prove their ability to do all the things that men do. This is a distortion and a travesty. Men have never sought to prove that they can do all the things women do. Why subject women to purely mas...

Let Me Be a Woman

I’m most endeared to the fact that they used gifts and talents that were taught to them by other enterprising women who looked just like them. These are gifts and talents they brought with them from Africa and other distant shores. These were gifts...

When Women Become Business Owners

And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women - except, of course —those who will end up, you know, like, paying for their own rape ‘kit ‘n’ stuff, But for everybody else, it’s a win-win....

Tina Fey

the lost women I need to know their names those women I would have walked with, jauntily the way men go in groups swinging their arms, and the ones those sweating women whom I would have joined After a hard game to chew the fat what would we have cal...

Lucille Clifton

Women who are often at the looking-glass seldom spin.

Dutch

If women were really good, God would be married.

Georgian

Women do not drink liquor, but it disappears when they are present.

Irish

Because of their figure, vain women stay cold.

Japanese

Women can keep only one secret -- their own.

Yiddish