American woman Quote by Warren Farrell

I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

— Peggy Guggenheim

“At the very same time that we witnessed the explosion of white celebrity moms, and the outpouring of advice to a surveillance of middle-class…

— Susan J. Douglas

During the fifties, for example, the American character appeared with someconsistency that became a model of manhood adopted by many men: the Fifties male.…

— Robert Bly

Ninety-five percent of women's experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive... women didn't go to Vietnam…

— Jodie Foster

Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their…

— Pam Grier

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

— Marion Barry

In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will…

— Seymour Hersh

“Michael Herr, the most brilliant reporter of the Vietnam War, captures the same frenzy in the voice of one American soldier he met: “We’d…

— Adam Hochschild

the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal,…

— Susan Faludi

Let's distinguish between freedom and equality. The modern American woman may be more liberated sexually than her mother was, but I don't think she…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.

— Marianne Williamson

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon