American Woman Quotes - Page 2

• The IWW [Industrial Workers of the World] has been accused of pushing women to the front. This is not true. Rather, the women have not been kept in back, and so they have naturally moved to the front.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  World, Pushing, Accused

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• I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.

  Molly Ivins

  Gun, Order, Knives

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• It is often falsely assumed, even by feminists, that sexuality is the enemy of the female who really wants to develop these aspects of her personality, and this is perhaps the most misleading aspect of movements like the National Organization of Women. It was not the insistence upon her sex that weakened the American woman student's desire to make something of her education, but the insistence upon a passive sexual role

  Germaine Greer

  Sex, Organization, Personality

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country

  Barbara Mikulski

  Country, Hurt, Social

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• When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.

  Betty Friedan

  Thinking, America, Target

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Years, African American, President

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• In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the lowest. I'm a woman who is a lawyer, who is a professor at a university, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, I cook. And even when I'm about to go to prison, one of the first things I do is to make enough food and put it in the fridge for my family.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Firsts, Lawyer, Prison

  "Iran Awakening - An Interview With Shirin Ebadi". Interview with Brian Shott, news.newamericamedia.org. May 20, 2006.

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• I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Brother, Husband, Men

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• I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

  Walter Wager

  Jobs, Work, Native American

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• Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Safety, Important, Age

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• The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

  Gail Collins

  War, Struggle, Fighting

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• She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, America, Secret

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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• American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.

  Pat Conroy

  Patience, Women, Grief

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• Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.

  Helen Fisher

  Children, Average, Europe

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• I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

  Denzel Washington

  Women, Opportunity, Thinking

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2000.

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• I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Girl, Dream, Comedy

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• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

  Sally Ride

  Responsibility, Space, Special

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

  Anna Quindlen

  Health, Men, Usa

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• If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.

  Coretta Scott King

  Children, Cutting, Thinking

  New Woman, Volume 16, No. 4, p. 20, April 1986.

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• I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.

  Anita Hill

  Thinking, Community, African American

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• British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.

  Carolina Herrera

  Style, Different, Way

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• The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Relief, Maps, Faces

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.306, New Directions Publishing

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• People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

  Janice Dickinson

  People, African American, Doe

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• Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef’s ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. American women should themselves be boiled in water.

  Rex Stout

  Summer, Sweet, Men

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• There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all.

  Nora Ephron

  Exercise, Hair, Feminism

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