Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.
They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.
Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
I'm a big perfectionist! I'm trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.
I think the world of comedy is a relatively small community, and especially for women in comedy, there just aren't that many people involved.
They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.
As women, we need to remember: don't be a doormat!
If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.
I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no diffe...
The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.
Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.
I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household inc...
China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves.
I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also v...
Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent.
We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.
I stand with the majority of Americans who believe that women will make the right choice for their families and everyone will win.
The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary.
