American Woman Quotes - Page 3

• Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Paradise, Reason Why

  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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• The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

  Sally Ride

  Bad Ass, Space, Expectations

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• If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

  Marya Mannes

  Money, Loss, Sisterhood

  Marya Mannes (1986). “The Best of Marya Mannes”

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• The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.

  Bell Hooks

  Acceptance, Bad Ass, Feminist

  bell hooks (2014). “Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism”, p.157, Routledge

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• The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife - freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

  Betty Friedan

  Dream, Grandmother, Envy

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.

  Charles Bukowski

  Texas, Louisiana, Natural

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• The tendency of modern American women to exclaim 'Hiiiiiiiiiiii!' in soprano octaves and hug each other upon sight can be disconcerting to those unfamiliar with it.

  Kevin Hearne

  Sight, Hug, Sopranos

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• Imagine what will happen to this nation if large numbers of American women start using the Wonderbra. It will be catastrophic. The male half of the population will be nothing but mindless drooling Zombies of Lust. Granted, this is also true now, but it will be even worse.

  Dave Barry

  Men, Numbers, Lust

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.40, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Thinking, Judging, Cooking

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.31, Open Road Media

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• American women often fall into the trap of, "Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night." It's so old-fashioned. The French are not afraid of their luxury. Americans can be so puritanical and think, "That's my special-occasion bag." Whereas, for a French woman, it's her everyday bag.

  Michael Kors

  Fall, Weekend, Night

  "Exclusive: Michael Kors' Lifetime Achievements". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. September 13, 2010.

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• The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Women, Feelings, United States

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• In case after case, President Bush's actions have made American women less safe and less secure -- on the job and on the streets. As president, I will put American government and our legal system back on the side of women. I will stand up for their security, ensure their safety, support their rights, and guarantee their dignity. This nation can do no less.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Rights, Government

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• rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Numbers, Heard, Felt

  Elizabeth Hawes (1948). “Anything But Love: A Complete Digest of the Rules of Feminine Behavior from Birth to Death ...”

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• The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Century, Claims, Fraud

  Phyllis Schlafly (2003). “Feminist fantasies”, Spence Pub

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• An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.

  Joseph McCarthy

  Book, Thinking, Answers

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• By the 1970s, the American woman was being called 'liberated' or 'superwoman' while the American man was being called 'baby killer' if he fought in Vietnam, 'traitor' if he protested, or 'apathetic' if he did neither. Even men who came home paraplegics were literally spit on.

  Warren Farrell

  Baby, Home, Men

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• When birth control pills were available in Europe but not in the United States, American women created an uproar about how the unwillingness to make the pill available showed a contempt for the lives of women. When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released birth control pills with high dosages of hormones that were later found to be unnecessarily high, they were attacked for not caring about women enough to do the necessary tests.

  Warren Farrell

  Caring, Europe, Fda

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.

  Candice Patton

  African American, Roles, Television

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Energy, Dresses, Way

  "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.

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• We have the loveliest women in the world in this county and wherever there are beautiful women there will be beautiful clothes. To show the American woman herself off to best advantage-that has always been my aim and that is my real biography.

  Hattie Carnegie

  Beautiful, Real, Clothes

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• Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Clothes, Chinese, Flesh

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

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• I have a theory about American men -- I think they think women are boys who don't know how to throw a ball very well. American women are forced into the role of being men without penises, of being men who haven't quite been able to make it. If women don't want to be pussycats, then they get forced into the role of being almost as good as men. Which is lousy.

  Anne Beatts

  Boys, Men, Thinking

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• Hawaiis own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

  Colleen Hanabusa

  Party, Color, House

  "Our Commitment to Women’s Success Continues" by Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

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• Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare gift: something truly new. Notable American Women contains strains of Donald Antrim and Samuel Beckett but is beholden to neither; it is a brave, original book.

  Myla Goldberg

  Book, Brave, Portraits

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• Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class. She not only considers herself the equal of man, but his superior, especially in her purity, goodness, and morality. Small wonder that the American suffragist claims for her vote the most miraculous powers. In her exalted conceit she does not see how truly enslaved she is, not so much by man, as by her own silly notions and traditions. Suffrage can not ameliorate that sad fact; it can only accentuate it, as indeed it does.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Silly, Men

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.57, PM Press

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