It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no women I would not even have to bathe because why would I care? These are guys I'm hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well at least for a time otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.

And verily a woman need know but one man well in order to understand all men whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry they can wear cute clothes and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

Some women can be fooled all of the time and all women can be fooled some of the time but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

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.

Really every woman is an example to me because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations.

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

You can find women who have never had an affair but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

I am not a sexy woman I'm not beautiful I'm not a sex kitten I don't flirt with people yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.

Behind all their personal vanity women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man but not her work.

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

'That's What She Said' is not Hollywood's standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous wedding obsessed boy crazy fashion focused sexed up 'girl' women. These are real women comically portrayed who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.

The wedding took place in Vermont where they have legalized gay civil unions and I married a woman.

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.