Black women Quote by Rebecca Traister

“Black women had in fact already made some of the very points for which Friedan was being hailed.”

— Rebecca Traister

“Friedan also didn’t consider the population of American women who were already altering marriage patterns,”

— Rebecca Traister

When I was in my 20s, I was out of control in terms of what I would do to defend my vision. There are…

— John Singleton

You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a…

— Cynthia Carroll

There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women to a…

— George Eliot

“Friedan demystified the fairy tale and traced it back to its roots. She named the unnamed problem. She told women they weren’t crazy, that…

— Carina Chocano

The Democrats' agenda isn't working for women. Their vision has produced big government and limited opportunity. Our vision is for limited government and opportunity…

— Reince Priebus

“While marriage rates for middle-class white women soared through the 1940s and 1950s, for black women, mid-twentieth century conditions were very different. Since emancipation,…

— Rebecca Traister

After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was…

— Rebecca Traister

It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being…

— Bill Ayers

When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.

— Tyler Perry

“As a Black Woman, I define self-care as the ability to safely and comfortably exhale.”

— Bethanee Epifani J. Bryant