#omen

The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation. ↗

— Billy Ray Cyrus

#asked #come #company #could #desperation

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#country #coup #disappears #frustration #moments

I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice. ↗

— Lindsay Davenport

#born #choice #come #family #had

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women. ↗

— Angela Davis

#any #between #functions #how #men

Strong women only marry weak men. ↗

— Bette Davis

#men #only #strong #strong women #weak

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay. ↗

— Bette Davis

#famous #get #hay #how #i

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. ↗

— Elmer Davis

#half #literal #man #middle-aged #middle-aged man

Its going to be a squeeze, but we have got to put our men and women in uniform ahead of everything else. We've got to be treating our reservists fairly before we move on to other procurements. ↗

— Mark Dayton

#before #else #everything #fairly #going

Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#because #card #career #down #female

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#belong #between #communications #different #infancy