American women Quotes

In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.

— Rebecca Traister

Breast cancer will strike one in eight American women in their lifetime.

— Cedric F Garland

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities…

— Denzel Washington

French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.

— Mireille Guiliano

“Friedan also didn’t consider the population of American women who were already altering marriage patterns,”

— Rebecca Traister

Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.

— Helen Fisher

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

— Betty Friedan

African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.

— Matthew Desmond

I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American…

— Faye Wattleton

“American women. Why do you all want to be nearly invisible? Why not have a physical presence in the world? Women should…

— Beth Fantaskey

An estimated 2 million American women will be diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer this decade and screening could prevent up to…

— Matthew Lesko

“American women. Why do you all want to be nearly invisible? Why not have a physical presence in the world? Women should…

— Beth Fantaskey

I think the '90s is the reason why I recently had to find natural haircare products to allow my hair to grow.…

— Drew Sidora

These efforts to defund Planned Parenthood fail because one out of five American women have used Planned Parenthood at one time or…

— Tina Smith

“The trouble with doing a thing for cosmetic reasons is that one always ends up with a cosmetic result, and cosmetic results,…

— Stephen Fry

“Mr. Reed,” Haley continued with a clipped voice. “All women in America now have the right to vote, not just those who…

— Lee Strauss

The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and…

— Betty Friedan

“It bears repeating: one in three American women have had abortions in their lifetime. I have probably done more than ten thousand…

— Willie Parker

“In 1960, never-married mothers accounted for fewer than 5 percent of the children of single mothers; by 2006, they accounted for 43…

— Karl Alexander

“You're like nearly all American women--married or single, young or old--you're all of you scared to death about sex--just as your Puritan…

— Earnest Poole

“The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of…

— Betty Friedan

American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long…

— Pat Conroy

“I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas might have resented; and…

— Edith Wharton

“She had made the observation several years before to a startled Waldo Emerson that “women are Slaves.” Married women in particular—and that…

— Megan Marshall

“I remember that a Korak once brought to me an old tattered fashion-plate from "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper," containing three or four…

— George Kennan

Personally I get so much of my inspiration from women in other countries, so I don't feel like American women are the…

— Asra Nomani

“Here are the facts. Coronary artery disease is the leading killer of men and women in Western civilization. In the United States…

— Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr

“A normal woman, indeed, no more believes in democracy in the nation than she believes in democracy at her own fireside; she…

— H.L. Mencken

“It's always the accent that drives you American women crazy. I'd no idea you fancied it, too…” he trailed off. “Oooh, fancied…

— Alice Clayton

“The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have…

— Naomi Wolf

“The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their…

— James Baldwin

“We Americans often say that marriage is hard work. I'm not sure that the Hmong would understand this notion. Life is hard…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“EXPECTATIONS ALSO SHAPE stereotypes. A stereotype, after all, is a way of categorizing information, in the hope of predicting experiences. The brain…

— Dan Ariely

“Advance Praise for THE GREAT NEW ORLEANS KIDNAPPING CASE: RACE, LAW, AND JUSTICE IN THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA "Michael Ross' The Great New…

— Michael A. Ross

“There was a time in my life when I did a fair bit of work for the tempestuous Lucretia Stewart, then editor…

— Christopher Hitchens

“People always feel sorry for you if you’re physically sick. It doesn’t matter if you have cancer or a cold. People always…

— Annie. Ortiz

“Tessa exploded "I am not asking you to maul me in the Whispering Gallery! By the Angel, Will, would you stop being…

— Cassandra Clare

“To most people today, the name Snow White evokes visions of dwarfs whistling as they work, and a wide–eyed, fluttery princess singing,…

— Terri Windling

“I'll fix things up with George soon as she gets here," Anthony mumbled. "You may depend upon it." "Oh,I know you will,…

— Johanna Lindsey

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

— Christopher Hampton