Equal pay isn’t just a women’s issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.
You can send women to the Moon or Mars later. First, provide sanitary pads to them.
I opened Leith’s in Notting Hill in 1969 and it eventually worked its way into being awarded a Michelin star. At the time, there were a few women running small bistros – but I was the first woman to have a ‘serious,’ expensive restaurant.
One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I’d like to see that change by walking the walk.
I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.
Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women – that somewhere along the line they’ll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.
My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves.
Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Historically, our culture has not made room for the nuances of humanity. People have not been kept safe: women, people of colour, queer people, transgender people.
They say Latina women are spicy. But we are more than that. We have power, and we run things.
Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.
If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It’s equality, it’s fairness, and I think it’s a great thing to be a part of.
I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
Honestly, I feel like we are a walking protest. The fact that we’re women professional athletes says that in and of itself. We’ve been feeling the inequality; we’ve been struggling with pay equality or whatever it is, or sexism in sports.
My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.
There’s just something about vampires that’s sexy. It’s the same reason why women go for the bad boy – you want them but you shouldn’t have them.
I think it’s important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I’m proud to be a role model!
I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
I think the reason why strong women have such a powerful impact is that you’ve got the strength of a man with the heart and sensitivity of a woman.
I just got caught up in the alcohol, women and all that sort of stuff.
