Women Quotes

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

My great grandfather from my father's side, Sir Akbar Hydari, was the prime minister of the Nizam of Hyderabad. He was instrumental in setting up the Osmania university. His wife set up the Hydari club for women so that they could play tennis, and she also set up the first girls' school in Hyderabad.

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women?

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

Women are really emotional creatures, and men are kind of closed in terms of emotions. I think women are just a lot more out there.

I never really liked Hollywood. I found it unreal - unreal and full of men and women whose lives were confused and full of pain.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, 'No.'

I am blessed beyond reason with women friends.