I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.
I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.
Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
Women artists are still treated differently from men.
Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.
I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
I deal with postpartum feelings by reaching out to mom friends. I became very close with some of the women in my prenatal yoga class.
I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.
My mom worked tirelessly on getting equal rights for women.
I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.
My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.
I was really raised by three women - my mom, and I have two older sisters, one nine years and one 11 years older - so I'm happy to have that many women in the house.
My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women, and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.
There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.
A small gold plain cross was passed down from my grandma to my mom, then to me, and now to my daughter. It is always nice to own something that connects you to the women who made it possible for you to exist.
My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.
