#wome

You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#areas #doing #enough #extraordinary #extraordinary things

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be. ↗

— Gemma Arterton

#expectations #generally #hair #how #industry

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money. ↗

— Alan Ayckbourn

#except #few #few women #large #large sums

When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action. ↗

— Manal al-Sharif

#afraid #break #car #drive #guts

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now. ↗

— Manal al-Sharif

#believe #change #day #different #i

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#afraid #been #bit #hurts #i

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#being #bright #clothes #colors #i

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#atmosphere #because #especially #i #international

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#average #equal #i #i think #identification

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less! ↗

— Isabel Allende

#better job #care #could #especially #human