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Woman Quotes by Bell Hooks
- I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just…
- No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.
- The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and…
- Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they…
- Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We know she’s a…
- Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to.…
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- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. — Jane Austen
- An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels… — Jane Austen
- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
- No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it… — Jane Austen
- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. — Jane Austen
- When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give… — Lauren Bacall