Quotes about "Women's Wisdom"

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.' ”

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth. ”

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female. ”

Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner. ”

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. ”

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. ”

I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes. ”

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky. ”

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men. ”

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted. ”