American Woman Quotes - Page 6

• African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

  Elijah Cummings

  African American, Female, Aids

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• In the United States, there's definitely some controversy about birth control in general, and I think we needed to split the debate and have people realize that we actually agree as a country about contraceptives. Over 93 percent of American women say they use contraceptives, and they feel very good about it.

  Melinda Gates

  Country, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours, and people wander in and wander out, and people talk the whole way through. One of the American women said to the other, "This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox." She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, "You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!"

  Andrew Solomon

  Beautiful, People, Church

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• I support the constitutional right of American women to consult their own conscious, their own support of partner, their own minister, but then make their own decision about pregnancy.

  Tim Kaine

  Pregnancy, Support, Decision

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian Jews,--not to speak of Italians, Germans, and the masters of all of us--the Irish!

  Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

  Italian, Males, Speak

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Be wary of feeling as through there is not enough room at the table. Oftentimes a female Chinese-American might feel as through she is in competition with another Chinese-American woman writer of the same generation. A writer friend of mine calls it the "There Can Only Be One ..." syndrome. This isn't "Survivor." The more good writers, of all walks of life and all ethnicities and persuasions, the better.

  ZZ Packer

  Writing, Ethnicity, Feelings

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• Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home with a title: The First American Woman to Climb Everest.

  Stacy Allison

  Home, Climbing, Titles

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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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• 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 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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• There are women (some men, too, but mostly women) who are going to the occupied Palestinian territories to stand with the victims of Israeli occupation. These are very courageous Israeli women and some British and American women. That's something quite new.

  Noam Chomsky

  Men, Israeli Occupation, Territory

  Source: www.madre.org

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• The American woman is more stylish than any other in the world. She understands the power of good style and has the confidence to feel comfortable.

  Max Azria

  Style, World, Stylish

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• I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.

  Anne Enright

  Clever, Writing, Thinking

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• If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

  Christopher Hampton

  Girl, Giving, Definitions

  1974 Savages, sc.16.

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• Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

  Chanel Iman

  African American, Looks, Proud

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• I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.

  Leontyne Price

  I Am The Best, Knows

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• War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

  Adrienne Rich

  War, Imagination, Political

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

  Thylias Moss

  Race, African American, Looks

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• While American men are fighting to rid the old world of autocracy let American women set to and rid the new world of this intolerable old burden of sex ignorance.

  Crystal Eastman

  Sex, War, Ignorance

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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