Quotes of: White-women Keyword

If you see it in Strunk and White it's so.

Buffy Andrews

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

Commencement

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.

Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

Give us being and feeling over having any day.

French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus instead we are all people. Deal with it.

Friends With Benefits: Rethinking Friendship, Dating & Violence

So? I know lots of beautiful women. Nova wanted to chase... I merely obliged her by running.

Broken City

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

The Beauty Myth

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

Joyce Maynard

It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting; and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

Julie Walters

I think that distributors and marketing companies realise that there are a huge number of women over 40 who want to go the cinema and see films about themselves. Women of my age don't want to be force-fed with stuff about 25-year-olds.

Lesley Manville

I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.

Penelope Cruz

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Coco Chanel

The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.

Gail Collins

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

Jennie Finch

My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.

James Wolk

In a world like this with no laws, no charter of human rights, it's the women who suffer. It's the women who learn what it is to be tough, not the men.

Afterlight

Men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits, rejecting whatever did not fit.

The Handmaid's Tale

...cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.

Jane Austen And Her Art