American Women Quotes

72 American Women quotes by 59 unique authors

• The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far… — Betty Friedan
• The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the… — Betty Friedan
• If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I… — Marya Mannes
• We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do the white woman's… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa
• African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival rates are worse… — Frank C. Garland
• American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists.… — Betty Friedan
• An estimated 2 million American women will be diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer this decade and screening could prevent up to 30% of these… — Matthew Lesko
• The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the… — Pat Buchanan
• All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States… — Helena Rubinstein
• Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old… — Barbara Mikulski
• In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the… — Shirin Ebadi
• When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it… — Betty Friedan
• I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country — Barbara Mikulski
• I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call… — Faith Ringgold
• I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black women. In other… — Patricia Hill Collins
• The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which it reflects and… — Patricia Hill Collins
• Imagine what will happen to this nation if large numbers of American women start using the Wonderbra. It will be catastrophic. The male half of… — Dave Barry
• French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat. — Mireille Guiliano
• I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar… — Kathryn Stockett
• I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in… — Sun Myung Moon
• There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with… — Pearl S. Buck
• It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were… — Jeannette Rankin
• And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women. — Louise Slaughter
• I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can… — Andree Putman

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Who Wrote These American Women Quotes

59 authors contributed a total of 72 American Women Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 7 American Women Quotes by Betty Friedan
• 2 American Women Quotes by Unknown Author
• 2 American Women Quotes by Patricia Hill Collins
• 2 American Women Quotes by Oscar Wilde
• 2 American Women Quotes by Jean Paul Gaultier
• 2 American Women Quotes by Gail Collins
• 2 American Women Quotes by Cassandra Clare
• 2 American Women Quotes by Barbara Mikulski
• 1 American Women Quote by Zhang Ziyi
• 1 American Women Quote by Yakov Smirnoff
• 1 American Women Quote by William Somerset Maugham
• 1 American Women Quote by W. Somerset Maugham
• 1 American Women Quote by Tina Brown
• 1 American Women Quote by Sun Myung Moon
• 1 American Women Quote by Sigmund Freud
• 1 American Women Quote by Shirin Ebadi
• 1 American Women Quote by Sandra Fluke
• 1 American Women Quote by Rex Stout
• 1 American Women Quote by Pearl S. Buck
• 1 American Women Quote by Pat Conroy
• 1 American Women Quote by Pat Buchanan
• 1 American Women Quote by Nora Ephron
• 1 American Women Quote by Monica Potter
• 1 American Women Quote by Mireille Guiliano
• 1 American Women Quote by Matthew Lesko