I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.
Alice Walker
Related I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman. PATRICK DEMPSEY American women are so fortunate. When I got married, all I wanted in the world was a dryer so I didn... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman qu... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose powe... GLORIA STEINEM since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why w... TUPAC SHAKUR I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter... ABDULLAH OF SAUDI ARABIA I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so m... PATRICIA IRELAND Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women... KATHA POLLITT I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman qu... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I di... TAMARA TUNIE I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depresse... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON She was one of the few gentle women that I knew throughout my lifetime. BEVERLY SILLS During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural ro... MICHELLE BACHELET Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who succes... ALICE WALKER It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangel... SALLY QUINN One thing is sure. Women and girls will have their first vision of a female network anchor who is an... GLORIA STEINEM In my first video diary I explained my love for women who have a taste in carrots. Since then, I hav... LOUIS TOMLINSON For example, breast cancer will strike one in eight American women in their lifetime. Early detectio... CEDRIC GARLAND For example, breast cancer will strike one in eight American women in their lifetime. Early detectio... CEDRIC F. GARLAND Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise m... BRUNO DUMONT I will appoint men and women to the Federal judiciary who share my view of unborn children as consti... GARY BAUER I want women to really look like women from today. It's not from the past and not from the future, b... CAROLINA HERRERA I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in... ALAN ROBINSON Since the Roe v. Wade decision, Planned Parenthood has aborted more than three million innocent Amer... DAVID BEREIT I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've nev... ERMA BOMBECK In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice... JUSTIN TRUDEAU As far back as we go ... it's the lowest for any kind of election, and I think it's the lowest since... TOM LEACH The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. —ALICE WALKER DEMI LOVATO As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of wome... ZAINAB SALBI Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and ... NARCISO RODRIGUEZ I've always liked older women. One sad thing about being my age is that there are no older women... HOWARD JACOBSON JFK wanted to put a man on the moon. My vision is to put every American man and woman on a campus. .... THOMAS FRIEDMAN (Walker) told black women that they don't have to be less than they are capable of being. I try to u... WHOOPI GOLDBERG Market research shows that older women like seeing older women in ads, and that younger women do, to... ISABELLA ROSSELLINI I believe that all men and women will be saved. PAT BUCKLEY The triumph cannot be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime... WILMA RUDOLPH My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great... DOLORES HUERTA I want this club to be a place that will be comfortable for women in particular. So many clubs have ... SHERYL SWOOPES Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now ... MILAN KUNDERA As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my pa... ELIZABETH KAPU'UWAILANI LINDSEY As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my pa... ELIZABETH KAPU'UWAILANI LINDSEY My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies. ERIC BALFOUR Sexiness is in Gucci's DNA but maybe I interpret it differently, being a woman and dressing women of... FRIDA GIANNINI What I like about the American woman is she usually has a lot of dynamism. In the U.S., women have a... FRANCOISE GILOT What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have produ... KATHLEEN TURNER I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I... ERMA BOMBECK It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchild... DAVID SUZUKI I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I d... DILMA ROUSSEFF Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black. CHARLES EVERS I do not care for prejudice in any form. In my opinion, we women have been subjected to so much of i... DIANNE DAY Gender used to be a barrier for women to overcome if they wanted to be in politics, but today in Tai... TSAI ING-WEN Never again will black women be disregarded. We will have our share and parity in American politics. C. DELORES TUCKER The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is h... ALICE ROSSI We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the ri... ALICE PAUL We need to reclaim the word 'feminism'. We need the word 'feminism' back real bad. When statistics c... CAITLIN MORAN I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for... IMELDA MAY I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can't h... ALICE PAUL I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time a... DEBI MAZAR LOVE is and will ALWAYS be the greatest GIFT ƸӜƷ M.G. WELLS Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off... ANDREA DWORKIN There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of youn... DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have si... EVANGELINE LILLY In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care abou... TIM MEADOWS Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, they should not be accepted, voluntar... MARGARET MEAD Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to... CARRE OTIS I have never received an award or honor that will be more cherished than this because it was given b... TIM SMITH Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! SUSAN B. ANTHONY We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but wha... ELISABETH ELLIOT In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they ... THEODOR REIK I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thi... JULIA ROBERTS I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw
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