African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. There's a real sense of stoicism and pragmatism and strength and lyricism… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
[Asked if American women would ever win full suffrage:] Assuredly. I firmly believed at one time that I should live to see… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
I was a salesman just out of college, traveling all over American roads in the cause of selling handbags to stores that… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
What people don't know is: Clothes don't really fit you unless they're made for you. Especially when you wear men's clothes, like… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“...the total number of pregnancies in which powerful and dangerous drugs are used is 60 percent, or nearly two-thirds of all births.… — Marsden Wagner Copy Share Image
“Since postslavery days and through to modern times, debate has raged in the African American community. What does it mean to wear… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
I forget the impact you have, especially when I see a young Korean girl or family, they come up to me and… — Jessica Pegula 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
“Congressional Republicans refused to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act because they objected to the protection it gave immigrants, transgender women, and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“We need to reclaim the word 'feminism'. We need the word 'feminism' back real bad. When statistics come in saying that only… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“A third of American women have had abortions, but a fraction of them are brave enough to stand up and tell their… — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
Outstanding American men seem to see power as something you use in order to correct someone who's wrong, to change them, to… — David McClelland Copy Share Image
It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
“Very unusual. American women aren’t like this, typically. They want to be wooed. Sweet-talked. Romanced. They want a big fantasy first. Reality… — Stuart Rojstaczer 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
“ It is a special vanity of Southern women to believe that they are different from other American women.” -Sharon McKern, author… — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
I admire American women because they are really good at putting a look together that is sophisticated. As British girls, we lean… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
American women today want too much liberty; that's why they're unhappy. Because when an American man meets a woman, he treats her… — Katy Jurado 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
One out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
There are women (some men, too, but mostly women) who are going to the occupied Palestinian territories to stand with the victims… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“A Gallup survey in 1962 indicated that only about one-third of American women considered themselves victims of discrimination. Eight years later the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
You know, women not making dollar for dollar the same as a man is not new. It's been that way since day… — Nina Turner 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 majority of American women have demanded over the last half century that society reject and revise traditional norms about what women… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
Russian women are now interested in clothes. But they will never attach supreme importance to fashions as do Europeans and American women,… — Elsa Schiaparelli 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
While American men are fighting to rid the old world of autocracy let American women set to and rid the new world… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
I date African-American women. That's all I date. In my family, it was never discussed - but I love black women. Nothing… — Stephen A. Smith Copy Share Image
Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than… — Jackie Speier Copy Share Image
I'm very optimistic about the future, because... Okay, with Audra McDonald, even just on Broadway, they cast her in shows that are… — Shanice Williams Copy Share Image
I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that… — Helena Rubinstein Copy Share Image