Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough all that running around and sweating somehow believing it means anything).

I think women want to take care of themselves and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions as they find in themselves men have concluded that there are none there at all.

I like to help women help themselves as that is in my opinion the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to and I don't think any one will deny us.

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.

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.

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever.

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.

Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40 maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

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

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves because then they just get labeled.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

The most excellent and divine counsel the best and most profitable advertisement of all others but the least practiced is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.