#omen

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#womens-rights #faith

I responded to the request because during these times when we are asking so much of our men and women in the armed services it is especially important that we properly honor those who died in the service of their country. ↗

— Robert A. Brady

#armed services #asking #because #country #died

Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life. ↗

— Erica Jong

#sex #women #business

The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#humor #love #men #women #family

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation. ↗

— Amy Tan

#concepts #daughters #family #fear #heritage

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#children #cold #common #composed #family

Parenthood doesn’t improve one’s character, it exposes it. ↗

— Leslie A. Gordon

#drama #family #novel #parenthood #parenting

She has very strong ideas about family - ideas that probably sound kind of sexist to you. She believes all dhampirs should train and put in time as guardians, but that the women should eventually return home to raise their children together. But not the men? No, he said wryly. She thinks men still need to stay out there and kill Strigoi. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#raise-children #sexist #women #family

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#assumed #because #black #children #feminist

Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily ↗

— Deborah McKinlay

#relationships #women-s-literary #family