- Live
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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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Zendaya - she's a boss - and Rihanna as well. I feel like those are two very powerful women.
- Great Spirit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that women... deal with immigration differently. And I'm interested in that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
This idea of feminism as a party to which only a select few people get to come - this is why so many women, particularly women of colour, feel alienated from mainstream western academic feminism. Because don't we want it to be mainstream?
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Girls are socialised in ways that are harmful to their sense of self - to reduce themselves, to cater to the egos of men, to think of their bodies as repositories of shame. As adult women, many struggle to overcome, to unlearn, much of that social conditioning.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think it's a good thing to talk about women's issues being exactly the same as the issues of trans women because I don't think that's true.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the very beginning, I think it's been quite clear that there's no way I could possibly say that trans women are not women. It's the sort of thing to me that's obvious, so I start from that obvious premise.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think white women need to wake up and say, 'Not all women are white,' three times in front of the mirror.
- Nov 07, 2020
I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women know when a man touches them inappropriately. Hugging one man doesn't mean it is an invitation. Wearing nail polish isn't an invitation.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man might actually brush off vulgar tweets that come to him. Women are likely to be affected by it.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely hope women know that abuse/harassment/blackmail on social media is also a crime, and the police definitely help.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started writing 'Still Missing,' I didn't actually realize I was writing a thriller. I thought it was more women's fiction, but during the many years of rewrites, I kept taking out the boring parts, and then my agent informed me that I had written a thriller.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020