Quotes on Women

The times when black women have been successful in confronting and overcoming the structural and institutional sexism and racism that persists in our society have been when we are thoughtful and strategic about speaking up. It's when we've done what it takes to introduce and implement our ideas and our plans to make things better.

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

The majority of small-holder farmers in Africa are women and, in urban areas, you're primarily looking at women-led households. So we can't solve hunger if we don't have gender-sensitive programming that addresses access to opportunities for women, whether it's through education or tools for cooking, like solar-powered stoves.

People ask me why I write strong women, and I say, 'Well, I don't like stupid ones.' Who would want to read about weak and whiny women? Are they people who assume women are weak and whiny? If so, why do they think that?

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

Empowering women is one of the most important things we - and indeed, every business - can do.

You see women struggling to keep it all together while a loved one is in jail. But we don't hear about them or their struggles in a way that resonates with others. Their stories are so compelling. It's as if they are in their own little world and no one else sees them.

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.

I don't think it's a good thing to talk about women's issues being exactly the same as the issues of trans women because I don't think that's true.

My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

When she stepped out of that spumy sea Aphrodite was said to have brought fertility, flowers, life, light to a barren world. For centuries women and men went to her sanctuaries to seek her pity and protection. Her domain was originally not just lust, but lust for life.

I think all things are political... How women are portrayed - that's a big thing for me. What is this role trying to say about women? Is this woman weak or victimised, and, if so, do we get to understand why?

We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to tell, and that they are capable, so magically capable, of writing them and creating important pieces of work that will live forever in history.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.