American Woman Quotes - Page 5

• Let's distinguish between freedom and equality. The modern American woman may be more liberated sexually than her mother was, but I don't think she enjoys a bit more sexual equality. The American male continues to use her sexually for one thing: a means to the end of his own ejaculation.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Mother, Mean, Thinking

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• The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.

  Alice S Rossi

  Long, Facts, Vote

  Alice S. Rossi (1973). “The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir”, p.407, UPNE

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• The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Simple, Complicated

  Henry Adams “The Letters of Henry Adams”

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• She was a blonde nearly young American woman of such dynamism that the tideless waves struggled to get farther up the beach.

  Anthony J. Carson

  Beach, Blonde, Wave

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• My wish for the American woman is that she may always be an elevating influence-man's inspiration. Let him go forth to duty while she weaves the spell which makes home a paradise to which he may return, ever welcome, whether he is victor or vanquished.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Inspiration, Home, Men

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• In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and personal friends; but in all cases, in which they do feel a concern, their opinions and feelings have a consideration, equal or even superior, to that of the other sex.

  Catharine Beecher

  Sex, Political, Feelings

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• Feminists have convinced themselves that any difference between men and women is oppression and that women in the United States are an oppressed minority. This is such a lie. American women are the most fortunate class of people who ever lived on the face of the earth.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Lying, Men, Class

  Source: rutherford.org

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• Michelle Obama is going to be an amazing First Lady: She's intelligent, capable and motivated. She just embodies everything that an American woman should represent.

  Eva Longoria

  Intelligent, Firsts, Motivated

  "Eva Longoria Parker Shows Her Sexy Side". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. December 28, 2008.

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• The American woman is a monstrosity.

  Charles Dickens

  Monstrosity

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• The much-vaunted sex appeal of American women is drawn from films, reviews and pin-ups, and is in large print fictitious. A recent medical survey in the United States showed that 75% of young American women are without strong sexual feeling and instead of satisfying their libido they seek pleasure narcissistically in exhibitionism, vanity, and the cult of fitness and health in a sterile sense.

  Julius Evola

  Strong, Sex, Vanity

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• One out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a grim inventory of diseases, including autism, blindness, mental retardation and heart, liver and kidney disease.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Children, Heart, Autism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm really happy about American Woman, it brought the Guess Who back. They started gigging again and got their song out on commercials.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Song, Really Happy

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• I was very proud and grateful to be the first African-American woman in the position. I thought it said a lot about our country that we had back-to-back African-American Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and then me. I also thought it said a lot about President Bush that he didn't see limits on the highest ranking diplomat in terms of color. It's a hard job, but really the best one in government.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Jobs, Grateful

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Fom the out set, the War on Terror was sharply different from other U.S. military actions in the strong support it received from American women. Normally, men back military action by 10 to 20 points more than women do. But, after 9/11, women felt more endangered by terror and backed action against the Taliban and Osama bin Laden as strongly as men did.

  Dick Morris

  Strong, Military, War

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• Which is mightily ironic since one of the most common criticisms of American women novelists (it's a load of crap but it gets bandied about a good bit) is that they don't write the "big" stories about "universal" or "worldly" concepts...Jesus. Um, when we do? We get told to get back in the kitchen and bedroom - go back to writing about love-y wife-y mother-y things.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Mother, Jesus, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• But being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different category. People would open up, and tell me things that they would never tell another journalist, no matter how persistent.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  People, Guy, Matter

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they are developing a special sense of sympathy for all who suffer and fail of justice.

  Fannie Barrier Williams

  Heart, Compassion, Race

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• The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history.

  Maria Shriver

  Portraits, Moments, Accurate

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• LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Women, Tree, Legs

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.151, University of Georgia Press

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• I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Women, Thinking, Doe

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XII, 1840.

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• American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Women, Athlete, Order

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge”

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• The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Attitude, Women, Inequality

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “America Day by Day”

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• The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Strong, Powerful, America

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

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• An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to the line of freedom with the passage of time-but, like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal.

  Susan Faludi

  Curves, Rights, Goal

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.

  Susan Faludi

  Women, Rabbits, Cocoons

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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