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Women Quotes by Alice Walker
- It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the…
- Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
- As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will…
- The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
- The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white,…
- I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
- I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men…
- Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have…
- It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to…
- I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is…
- My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves…
- In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will…
- I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that…
- Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.
- Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
- I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that…
More Women Quotes
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- I also have this incredible love for women. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- All fat women look the same; they all look 42. — Margaret Atwood
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood