The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today everywhere you turn there is a mother daughter sister or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore and they're not just mothers.

Because I have work to care about it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

Black women sharing close ties with each other politically or emotionally are not the enemies of Black men.

Avon is a unique place to work we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company 46 percent of our officers are women.

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say 'I'm a feminist. '

If we took away women's right to vote we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.

Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.

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.

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

For any of us in this room today let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in our grandmothers lived in where career choices for women were so limited.

Men and women should stay apart till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us how we perceive ourselves how we live work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.

When I get up and work out I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly who invests in them but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people women and men as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Oh if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

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.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us the love of Black women for each other.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.