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I love empowering women. I think it's crazy: if you ever try to belittle women, you're playing yourself - I ride with whoever rides with me.
It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.
I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
I am a fairly optimistic person... If everything that I'm involved in now suddenly fell away, I know I would cope because I've coped before.
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes.
We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.
Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.
You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.
Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
I believe Native Americans, women, and all of us deserve representation, and that we all need to fight with everything we have to make it so.
Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a hoe.
Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.
The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians.
And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.
If a woman has talent she'll get there. But she has to be willing to fight... to have tremendous determination and be single-minded about it.
Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.
It is much easier for a woman to meditate than it is for men, innately. Their subtle physical bodies pick up the kundalini much more quickly.
What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench.
In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is carrying around.
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world's economic, political, and environmental problems.
Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.
The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.
Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.
You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!
My heart went out, seeking the God of my people. In thousands of homes those white candles burned tonight. I joined an invisible congregation.
Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.
Women need to support other women, and we must ensure we are providing women with opportunities that allow them to reach their full potential.
The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.
We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.
Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.
You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.
Everyone is allowed to be vulnerable. I think women and men and dogs and cats and ants and aliens can all express themselves and be vulnerable.
Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.
I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.
Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.