I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation,… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
Being in the body of an African-American woman, I prefer animation. I get to be everybody. I don't have to always be… — Cree Summer Copy Share Image
“Through my willingness to train every day and to dig deep in the after-class ukemi sessions, over time I earned the respect… — Linda Holiday Copy Share Image
“She was bold, and yet she was reserved. She was sensual and girlish, but she was never coy. So I think that… — Paul Fees Copy Share Image
“He tells me of one American woman, forty-five years old, who was able to conceive only after being blessed by the Holy… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
All of my history as an African-American woman, as a Jewish woman, as a Muslim woman. I'm bringing everything I ever knew,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I went to Dartmouth College so simply by being an Indian-American woman, I was already so statistically interesting. And then the fact… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or… — Lars von Trier 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
The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they… — Fannie Barrier Williams 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
Newsweek recently asked American women which women they admire the most, and the answer varied, actually, depending on which political party you… — Michel Martin Copy Share Image
I am an African-American woman of dark skin tone, and there are very specific roles that are usually given to African-American women… — LaChanze Copy Share Image
Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home… — Stacy Allison Copy Share Image
Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Hawaiis own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought… — Colleen Hanabusa Copy Share Image
In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines… — Donna de Varona Copy Share Image
Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we… — Maureen Howard 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
In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
“The world of the soap opera is the world of the Emancipated American Woman, a creature whose idleness is employed to no… — Frederick Exley Copy Share Image
