There is an incompatibility between being glamorous, young and a woman and using my brain. The official version is there is no discrimination, and talent dominates, but that is not the case.
It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.
I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.
The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.
Men are destined to love woman, not to expect love but just to love them.
Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.
This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style.
If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic.
There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.
I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.