American Women Quotes
72 American Women quotes by 59 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.
— Mireille Guiliano
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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