What I like about the American woman is she usually has a…

She was a blonde nearly young American woman of such dynamism that the tideless waves struggled to get farther up the beach.

— Anthony J. Carson

YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.

— Ambrose Bierce

This is certainly not to excuse the violence that exists on TV and films and on the Internet. But the truth is that wherever…

— Irwin Winkler

An American credit card...is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

— Edward Bellamy

[John] Adams's perception of Europe, and especially France, was clearly different than [Tomas] Jefferson's. For Jefferson, the luxury and sophistication of Europe only made…

— Gordon S. Wood

Feminists have convinced themselves that any difference between men and women is oppression and that women in the United States are an oppressed minority.…

— Phyllis Schlafly

In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor…

— Shirin Ebadi

Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we might see…

— Maureen Howard

In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side…

— Donna de Varona

I am an African-American woman of dark skin tone, and there are very specific roles that are usually given to African-American women of a…

— LaChanze

Newsweek recently asked American women which women they admire the most, and the answer varied, actually, depending on which political party you were from...…

— Michel Martin

The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they are developing…

— Fannie Barrier Williams

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 that down…

— Nina Turner

Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare gift: something…

— Myla Goldberg

“She was bold, and yet she was reserved. She was sensual and girlish, but she was never coy. So I think that what she…

— Paul Fees