“A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.”
Women have always shaped the world, even when the world refused to acknowledge it. These quotes explore feminism, strength, identity, motherhood, ambition, and the ongoing work of making sure half the population gets a full seat at the table.
“Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?”
“A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.”
“Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.”
“It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.”
“The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.”
“Most women are one man away from welfare.”
“We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.”
“Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.”
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
“Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.”
“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”
“I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.”
“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”
“I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.”
“Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).”
“Women are always beautiful.”