American woman Quotes

I am a bisexual Cuban-American woman, and I am so proud of it.

— Lauren Jauregui

The American woman is a monstrosity.

— Charles Dickens

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

— Walter Wager

LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

— Ambrose Bierce

I know why the caged bird sings.

— Maya Angelou

The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.

— Susan Faludi

It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.

— Joan Crawford

The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.

— Phyllis Schlafly

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

— Pearl S. Buck

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

— Suzan-Lori Parks

I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.

— Leontyne Price

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

— Chanel Iman

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

— Sally Ride

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

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

— Carrie Chapman Catt

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

Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical…

— Marlene Dietrich

Look at Hispanic women - they are being paid 42 cents on the dollar - or African-American women. I think it's an…

— Jessica Chastain

rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you…

— Elizabeth Hawes

The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of…

— Henry Adams

You can't be a feminist in the United States and stand up for the rights of the American woman and then say…

— Linda Sarsour

What I would note, though, and one of the things I really admire about the vice president: She is the first African…

— Jen Psaki

What's been fascinating about shooting my series 'American Woman' is the ubiquity of a woman's experience - and no matter who you…

— Brooke Baldwin

I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with…

— Molly Ivins

“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

I was very proud and grateful to be the first African-American woman in the position. I thought it said a lot about…

— Condoleezza Rice

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

I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black…

— Patricia Hill Collins

Senator Sessions has opposed protections for LGBT individuals. He's spoken out against Freedom Corps' marriage equality decision. He opposed the repeal of…

— Patrick Leahy

I've always applied the same attitude to things, an impulsive, instinctive reaction. It's hard to describe, but I often get a sense…

— Kate Winslet

I never went in thinking, "You're an African-American woman, so you're never going to win." I was just in career doing beauty…

— Pam Grier

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.

— Fran Lebowitz

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

— John Steinbeck

I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.

— Candice Patton