Embarrassment Quote by Camille Paglia

Sonia Sotomayor is uniquely and exquisitely sensitive to race issues because she is a Latina.

— Dahlia Lithwick

“A really cultured woman, like a really cultured man, is all the simpler and the less obtrusive for her knowledge; it has made her…

— George Eliot

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied…

— Angelina Grimke

What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so…

— Susan B. Anthony

I feel I'll take on the responsibility of showing the world a whole different kind of Latin woman.

— Eva Mendes

The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does…

— Rosie Perez

“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught…

— Maya Angelou

“We who are white men can't change who we are. But we could do worse than to follow what I took that summer as…

— John Hodgman

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

— Patricia Hill Collins

“As a straight, cisgender, able-bodied, neurotypical, first-world, middle-class white woman, she struggled to maintain a constant awareness of her privilege, and to avoid using…

— Tom Perrotta

Nobody wants to know a colored woman's opinion about her own status of that of her group. When she dares express it, no matter…

— Mary Church Terrell