Quotes about Women
I love children say Sofia. But all the colored women that say they love yours is lying. They don't love Reynolds Stanley any more than I do. But if you so badly raise as to ast 'em, what you expect them to say? Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.
— Alice Walker
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. I am speaking here of man's mind. The men both worshiped and feared the women.
— Alice Walker
Instead all the women [at the National Black Feminist Organization] understood that we gathered together to assure understanding among black women, and that understanding among women is not a threat to anyone who intends to treat women fairly.
— Alice Walker
There we are informed that He is the father of Jesus, who we invariably see depicted as a white man. He thinks we are born of sin and embody it; he thinks man should have dominion over the earth, which includes land and water, women, animals and children.
— Alice Walker
it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.
— Hannah More
I was told that whistling wasn't ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy.
— Anonymous
And he [Ezra] read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.
— Anonymous
King Solomon loved many strange women.
— Anonymous
Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
— Anonymous
Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
— Anonymous
Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not.
— Mark McKinnon
We just want to be sure that what we're creating is pushing the ball forward for women and diversity in media.
— Jennifer Konner