Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically.
Do you know anybody under 25 that gives a damn whether you marry a man if you're a man or if you marry a woman if you're a woman? No.
You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other.
That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.
To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.
Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.
Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.
What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race - they don't exclude anyone.
My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.
A Woman never looks better than on horseback
A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.
There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have an easy time of it. Why the story goes that one Black woman college president died and went to hell, and it was two weeks before she realized that she wasn't still on the job.
In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur.
And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.
Never send a boy to do a man's work; send a woman.
Every factory must be a school to educate, like Che Guevara said, to produce not only briquettes, steel, and aluminum, but also, above all, the new man and woman, the new society, the socialist society.
A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.
Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.