Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman. — Chloe Bennet Copy Share Image
As a female candidate, you always expect that some people will think you are not as capable of being an executive, or… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
My wish for the American woman is that she may always be an elevating influence-man's inspiration. Let him go forth to duty… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
American women often fall into the trap of, "Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what… — Michael Kors Copy Share Image
Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was:… — Joseph McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Mma Ramotswe had a gift for the American woman, a basket which on her return journey from Bulawayo she had bought, on… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Fom the out set, the War on Terror was sharply different from other U.S. military actions in the strong support it received… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community,… — Lori Lightfoot Copy Share Image
The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5. — Nancy Gibbs 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
“Elizabeth Blackwell, “with a very slender purse and few introductions of any value,” found herself in the “unknown world” of Paris. What… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took. — Alice S Rossi Copy Share Image
I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such… — Maureen Dowd 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
My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles… — John W. Rogers, Jr 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
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
My favourite moment from the Oscars was when Brando didn't attend and sent a Native American woman to talk about Wounded Knee.… — Anohni Copy Share Image
