American women Quote by Helena Rubinstein

The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is…

— Marquis de Lafayette

I was the all-American face.

— Debra Winger

It still amazes and fascinates me that women of color have kept my work alive for these many generations.

— Ntozake Shange

I have worn my white and purple, colors of the Suffragettes, in honor of the fact that we have our first woman president, soon…

— Nancy Pelosi

“a mantra she attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt: women in politics, she said, “need to develop skin as tough as a rhinoceros hide.”

— Mark Leibovich

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I…

— John Mahoney

In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for…

— Mohsin Hamid

When I look in the mirror I see the woman I knew I wanted to be as a child. When I was a young…

— Amma Asante

I've always been drawn to the American style in the late '50s and '60s.

— Thom Browne

I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.

— Georgie Anne Geyer

American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas…

— Charles Bukowski

It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit…

— John Mahoney