Sisterhood is important because we are all we have to stand on. We have to stand near and by each other, pray for one another, and share the joys and the difficulties that women face in the world today. If we don’t talk about it among ourselves, then we are made silent by the patriarchy, and that serves us no purpose.
Women
If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.
If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Women like to sit down with trouble – as if it were knitting.
Women like to sit down with trouble – as if it were knitting.
Ellen Glasgow
I have women coming up to me and saying: 'I love your character! She's so empowered. She takes control; she gets what she wants.' That's another side of her. And I respect that in Joan. She says and does things that I would never allow myself to do.
I have women coming up to me and saying: ‘I love your character! She’s so empowered. She takes control; she gets what she wants.’ That’s another side of her. And I respect that in Joan. She says and does things that I would never allow myself to do.
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.
I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.
I was never a glamour puss whose career was really based on a look or an attitude. I've been basically playing the same parts I am at 55 that I was at 35. I get cast as strong women, and that can be a mother or a judge or anything.
I was never a glamour puss whose career was really based on a look or an attitude. I’ve been basically playing the same parts I am at 55 that I was at 35. I get cast as strong women, and that can be a mother or a judge or anything.
It has become impossible to forget 'votes for women,' just as it was impossible to forget the reformation of Luther.
It has become impossible to forget ‘votes for women,’ just as it was impossible to forget the reformation of Luther.
Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani – women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty – they defined it.
Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe and Anna Magnani – women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn’t submit to any standard of beauty – they defined it.
If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, 'No.'
If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‘No.’
I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.
I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.
There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions – not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Indigenous people.
There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions – not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Indigenous people.