- Opportunities
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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
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that black people making art, women making art, and certainly black women making art is a disruptive endeavor - and it's one that I enjoy extremely.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't think it's a problem that's specific to black women. I think it's a problem that's specific to movie-making in America.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say men's facial hair is kind of like women's makeup. We know how to contour our face real nice and give ourselves nice angles and make our nose look not quite as crooked as it is.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
- Nov 07, 2020
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most valuable blacks are those in prison, those who have the warrior spirit, who had a sense of being African. They got for their women and children what they needed when all other avenues were closed to them.
- Nov 07, 2020