Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well. — Chanel Iman Copy Share Image
I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film. — Candice Patton Copy Share Image
American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When I am designing, I keep in mind more the American woman than the French woman. — Hubert de Givenchy Copy Share Image
The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot… — Andree Putman Copy Share Image
Al Gore was a good guy and he wanted to give flextime to American women who are trying to balance work and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“An American man endowed with sufficient wealth can purchase anything, but an American woman endowed with sufficient beauty does not need to.” — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
If a CEO takes an interest in you and he happens to be an Asian man, then that's great, but as an… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
“That’s the first thing that strikes an American woman about Europe – that it’s unsanitary. Impossible for them to conceive of a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It's important for women to understand that it's bad enough that we don't make dollar-for-dollar what men do, but when you distill… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
In the United States, there's definitely some controversy about birth control in general, and I think we needed to split the debate… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
I've spent my whole career trying to stay out of any box that anyone could put me in. 'I'm going to do… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
To reaffirm the statement on the choosing of my identity, I come from two beautiful cultures which I have embraced, bridged, balanced,… — Radmilla Cody Copy Share Image
There still aren't enough[ roles for women of color]. And I'd say that's the case, not only for African-American women, but for… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You've probably seen that any visible Palestinian-American woman who is at the forefront of any social-justice movement is an immediate target of… — Linda Sarsour Copy Share Image
Let's distinguish between freedom and equality. The modern American woman may be more liberated sexually than her mother was, but I don't… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
As a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“The Old South is a place where people use food to tell themselves who they are, to tell others who they are,… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“The insights, interpretations both of theory and fact, and the implicit values of this book are inevitably my own. But whether or… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“The American really loves nothing but his automobile: not his wife his child nor his country nor even his bank-account first (in… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There may be countries [where] there's no gender inequality in schooling, even in higher education, but [where there is] gender inequality in… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“Look for all of the possible missteps in the following scenario. My friend Amy arrived at a consultation with her Hispanic business… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“As an Asian American woman within black radical circles, Grace surely was anomalous, but this raised no significant concerns or barriers to… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“Today my elation over Obama's election is tempered by a far more sobering awareness. As an African American woman, with three young… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental. — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
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