Top 1200 Southern Women Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

With women empowerment and women coming together, it's not about being better than the guys or whatever. It's just about collaboration; it's about being equal people and having more of a highlight on women's athletics and just women being equal in every aspect.

It's really important for women in the public eye to be open - these pop stars who don't look, behave, speak like real women - that's not fair on women. Being real, honest, authentic - too many women in the public eye are afraid to be authentic because they are afraid they will be judged.

Much of the responsibility to get more women elected is down to political parties. I am proud that a third of Lib Dem MPs are women, and I know we must work harder still to spot and nurture talented women at all levels in our party.

Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138]

My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'

In a way, by being fully committed to the Olympic movement globally, I'm better able to promote women's hockey and talk about women's hockey and put a face to women's hockey, to all the IOC members.

Feminism is liberalism, and look at what it's doing, look at what it's promoting, look at what it's condoning. All the while, we have to live in this lie that there's some sort of Republican War on Women. We don't do this to women! We don't objectify women like this.

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

Basically as someone who grew up in Delhi, crooning in southern languages which I don't understand is very difficult.

I don't understand women who don't love women. I love women. I just think they are magnificent creatures.

History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men engaged in manifold tasks. Women's history is an assertion that women have a history.

I don't know everything about the Southern Hemisphere, but if you're fans of something as bad as Vegemite, we must have similar interests.

I will make every effort to protect and secure the southern border, and advance an America first agenda.

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

We have so few women in Congress. We are so underrepresented and whether we like it or not, we are in area - in an era that still the women, the handful that are there, have two jobs: they represent the constituency that they're from, and they also represent the women of the nation or the state or sometimes as Maloney has done, of the world.

Los Angelesand all of southern california is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known.

In my bones, I feel like a Scot. I always have. My mum's from Doncaster, so whatever that is as a combination of Scotland and Yorkshire. It isn't southern.

When I was 7, we bought a big house at the corner of Wilshire and Western and put in one of the earliest swimming pools in Southern California.

All year there have been these cover stories that the women's movement is dead and about the death of feminism and the post-feminist generation of young women who don't identify with feminism - and then we have the biggest march ever of women in Washington. More people than had ever marched for anything - not only more women, but more people.

My luck has always been how I've had a family of women around me, and I have women who are very close to me - for example, Mariacarla Boscono, Carine Roitfeld, Marina Abramovic. I have different women whom I adore and value.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object - and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.

Men don't sexually assault women because they are lustful; they do it because they want to dominate, humiliate and abuse women. They do it because they view women as objects.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.

I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.

Women have always been more critical of marriage than men. The great mysterious irony of it is - at least it's the stereotype - that women want to get married and men are trying to avoid it. Marriage doesn't benefit women as much as men, and it never has. And women, once they are married, become very critical of marriages in a way that men don't.

Most men I know adore women, and I am including gay men. I think studies on jury selection show that the biggest critics of women - people less likely to trust their character or judgment - are women.

In the U.K., we have a paper called 'The Daily Mail,' which is quite misogynist. And every day, it just writes pieces about: 'Women, you're going to die now! Women, here's shoes that give you cancer! Women, just hate yourselves!'

Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, 'Jim Rash' just screams 'Southern boy.'

The fact that women begin to avoid running for public office because of the harassment and sometimes even violence that they face as a hazard, it means that the world is being robbed of extraordinary leadership that women can bring to bear. And of course, if women as professionals begin to look at making career choices because they're looking at whether Am I going to be safe or not? You can imagine the missed opportunities that are out there for women.

When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

I think we have to keep putting women's sports in the limelight. I thought the Women's World Cup did a wonderful job of showing the quality of women's soccer. But we also need coverage and marketing and press and getting these female athletes to become household names.

We have to start looking at the world through women's eyes' how are human rights, peace and development defined from the perspective of the lives of women? It's also important to look at the world from the perspective of the lives of diverse women, because there is not single women's view, any more than there is a single men's view.

As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.

Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women.

I think women love glamour. I mean, not all women, but I think this is something that women share.

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

I love how Hollywood still wants to perpetuate the myth that beaches in Southern California are warm at night.

The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.

New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean

Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.

I am a very particular and peculiar ethnicity. Southern European, Italians - they never fit in models.

... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.

We women need to rise to the occasion. The ayahuasca experience rebirths, inspires, empowers, and ignites us to do that. The Cosmic Sister Plant Spirit Grant is just one small way women can encourage and support women to take that journey and shine as they were born to do.

We have to face up to the fact that without the armed uprising in 1916 Britain would not have withdrawn from southern Ireland.

I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky.

Overall, I feel that southern cinema, in itself, has taken over the film industry with its content, stories and screenplay.

You might be a redneck if more than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general.

We're here in this women's revolution - we're in this women's empowerment movement worldwide - and, if anything, women should stick up for each other and be like, 'No, she deserves everything she has, and she's worked hard as a woman.'

More education for women. More jobs for women. More equal opportunities for women. More women to be taken seriously. And I think more than anything we wish to be heard and not to be shut down. I think this is a good thing to think about for any community; what is important is that our voices be heard and not swallowed in an abyss of history.

My chosen drink would be a Southern Comfort, lime and lemonade, a dry martini or a good red wine.

Even in my adult years, when I heard a white person speaking in a Southern accent I was initially suspicious.

I am saying there are women in the Senate, there are women in governorships, there are women in statewide office, there are women in the House, and I do think we can't ignore the fact that we have had the first woman ever win a nomination of a major party and the first woman ever winning the popular vote. So I think the table is set for a woman in the near future. I really do.

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.

As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?

I am just the most boring person you will ever meet. I'm the good Southern daughter. I'm not outrageous.