Quotes on Women

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations.

I just want different narratives for people of color, especially women of color. I just want something that's different. I don't want us to be put in a box. I want it to be kind of a redefinition of who were are. If I can even achieve that in a tiny way, I'll be good. I'll be good.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Women watch and say, 'I like watching you control your own space. It's motivated me to do better, to go back to college, to even try law school. My daughter's been watching you since she's 10 - I love the fact that she's watching a strong woman who's in control.' All of those things are good, positive things.

I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men.

When you lift up black women, you lift up entire communities and the entire country.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

The pill was the liberation of the spirit of women.

I have never followed fashion. What is fashion to me? I just think of things that inspire me, that inspire women, and I design that way.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

Women must be freed from the idea that they always have to stay young and that they must disfigure themselves at a certain age.

I thought fashion was just the pretext to do images with lots of freedom and get them published in magazines. You could express your point of view, make statements about women and about what you believe in.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.

Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.

I believe that women know if their husbands are unfaithful. They feel it.

For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.

I think there's a lot of gay women in sports, and it's widely known in the team; they can live a pretty open lifestyle without being open in the media.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

I really want to help stop violence toward women.