Quotes of: Africanamerican-women Keyword

What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.

The Diary of a Young Girl

A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.

The Death of the Heart

It was those eyes as much as anything that had earned him his reputation as a man to be reckoned with. When he stared at a person, clear and unwavering, men grew uncomfortable. Women positively shivered.

The Duke and I

Some women pray for their daughters to marry good husbands. I pray that my girls will find girlfriends half as loyal and true as the Ya-Yas.

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.

Dans un mois, dans un an

I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.

Don't Give It Away!: A Workbook of Self-Awareness and Self-Affirmations for Young Women

Teddy was feeling as miserable and impotently angry as any male creature does when two women are quarreling about him in his presence. He wished himself a thousand miles away.

Emily Climbs

Bolivian women sewed their lips shut for days. They threaded needles through their skin to stop their speech, to show what good speaking had done them.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what shaped them.

An Experiment in Love

Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.

Eve's Apple: A Novel

Women readers aren`t turned on by nice heroes any more than male readers lust after heroines who are too virtuous.There should be at least a hint,maybe even a promise, of corruptibility.

Envy

I don’t see any dearth of women leaders, it’s a question of what we consider a woman leader.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

After the period of sex-attraction has passed, women have no power in America.” -Elizabeth Bisland

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

Our desire to grow, to make a place for ourselves… to know we have counted in the lives of others, is healthy and necessary to our existence…

Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women

Resistance, in the form of opposition or lack of support from others is often a sign telling you to move forward and on to bigger and better things.

Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

You are your own soul mate, so love and treat yourself in the same way you would your life partner.

Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

Prioritise self-care & incorporate a MINIMUM of 60 mins 'ME TIME' into your daily routine. YES THERE ARE enough hours in the day. NO EXCUSES.

Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

Our response to the external conditions of our lives can be greatly altered by our perceptions of those conditions.

Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

Far from the Madding Crowd

Girls don't go to law school," I told him. "No, but women do.

Fairy Tales Can Come True: How a Driven Woman Changed Her Destiny

What kind of dark, twisted mind preys on young women? I think it was Poe that said the death of a beautiful woman is the most poetical thing in the universe, and if that was true… I was John Milton.

Forlorn Passions