- Harriet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women Quotes
On confidence, identity and being true to yourself.
These quotes discuss women's confidence and identity from a few angles: resisting pressure to act a certain way, and the discipline shown by women serving alongside men in the military. For related reflections, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Ethic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.
- Motherhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.
- Nov 07, 2020
We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020