#women

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#attitudes #away #beauty #because #certain

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#citizens #creatures #duties #fathers #free

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.' ↗

— Alice Walker

#chain #choose #convinced #cruelty #delight

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish. ↗

— Alice Walker

#comes #correctly #culture #describe #does

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom. ↗

— Alice Walker

#bloom #cherish #cherished #clear #every

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. ↗

— Alice Walker

#against #coconut #collapsing #defending #father

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. ↗

— Alice Walker

#active #active life #clearly #elder #especially

Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#before #begin #behalf #courage #face

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that. ↗

— Vera Wang

#daughters #ever #great #great respect #i

I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women. ↗

— Vera Wang

#designing #end #few #few women #frustrated