Quotes on Women

I think that women of color use social media to make our voices heard with or without the amplification of white women. I also think that, many times, when white women want our support, they use an umbrella of 'women supporting women' and forget that they didn't lend the same kind of support.

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?

We try to teach women how to be strong, how to believe in themselves, how to make themselves happy, as opposed to pleasing someone else first.

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

In order to really give mental health the focus and attention it deserves, we need to bring together and integrate all the services that provide women with the care they need. This includes the mental and physical health services, as well as social care.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease.

The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then they guide the horse with loose reins and very seldom use the spurs. So it was with our chief [William Rehnquist]. He guided us with loose reins and used the spurs only rarely to get us up to speed with our work.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.

I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.