Quotes with women

Quotes 101 till 120 of 898.

  • Angela Davis Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including ourĀ­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Barbara Bush Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Bobby Riggs Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.
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  • Huey Newton Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.
    Revolutionary Suicide (2009)
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Buchi Emecheta Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Audre Lorde Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Barbara Smith Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
    Barbara Smith
    American lesbian feminist and socialist (1946 - )
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  • Toni Morrison Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Audre Lorde Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 47
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Barbara Smith Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
    Barbara Smith
    American lesbian feminist and socialist (1946 - )
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Bored with your present enemies? Make new ones! Tell two of your women friends that they look alike.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Brit Morin Brit + Co tries to help women understand that they are creative and give them all sorts of opportunities to try their hand at something creative. We want it to be as easy as possible to start. If that means you uploading a pattern to Spoon flower and make wallpaper, that's great. You made it!
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Lord George Byron But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Anita Hill But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken But that is a rare, rare man, I venture, who is as steadily intelligent, as constantly sound in judgment, as little put off by appearances, as the average women of forty-eight.
    In Defense of Women (1918)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Audre Lorde But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Andrea Dworkin By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of ''I am afraid,'' we say, ''I don't want to,'' or ''I don't know how,'' or ''I can't.''
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Bill Buford Cable made the Food Network possible. It was invented in 1993 by Reese Schoenfeld, a co-founder of CNN, who was convinced that its natural audience was women - millions of them.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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