#women

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

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#beings #confirmation #contrary #equally #far

I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive. ↗

— Karen Bass

#competitive #i #i think #men #more

I said, wouldn't it be nice, instead of having these women fight with each other over men, which seems to be more of a cliche, wouldn't it be wonderful if they were the true comrades and it took these men much more time to infiltrate their friendships. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#cliche #comrades #each #fight #friendships

I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#bat #because #being #being strong #especially

It's odd how fast a beautiful woman can turn a guy's mind into lint storage. Just by being a beautiful woman. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#moonlight-mile #women #beauty

The most beautiful women in the world were African. ↗

— Martin Cruz Smith

#beauty #women #beauty

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#women #men

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#feminism #women #free

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell." (America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938) ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#double-standards #empowerment #inequality #prison #women