Top 1200 Southern Women Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.

It's a black Southern belief that blue glass keeps out bad spirits.

Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don't want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now.

I grew up in Southern California, so there is just a part of me that is a Hollywood rocker.

We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders.

But Sarah Weddingtonhad never told me that what I was signing would allow women to use abortions as a form of birth control. We talked about truly desperate and needy women, not women already wearing maternity clothes.

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.

Southern black gay and bi men are suffering from a self-esteem issue.

Wake up, America. With a porous southern border, we have no idea who's in our country.

I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

When I came to America, there were two kinds of women: women who looked serious and who didn't wear color and print, and women who looked girly and feminine and like second wives.

The Southern hospitality is almost the same as the love and the kindness that they show back at home.

If women who don't help women get a special circle in hell, I think women who do help women should get a special cloud in heaven.

Country music's so about the nuclear family and living the southern lifestyle and everything.

Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University.

And I always say, when Southern people get on the dance floor, they ain't getting off.

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

I really wanted to explore a range of women who aren't necessarily perfect, heroic women. I wanted to series to influence creative people to include more women in their work, especially historic works.

Every company I know is looking for more women at the table. Every board is looking for more women at the table. There's a reason why men want to understand the challenges women face, address them, because then they're going to be better hirers, attracters and retainers of women.

I grew up in Southern California and always loved melodic pop music.

There are all kinds of ways in which women, together, change the world. And I don't mean that in a cheesy way. I'm not somebody who believes all women should support each other. I believe very strongly in women critiquing each other, just not critiquing each other more intensely because they're women.

It's such a rarity to have women in senior powerful positions. We can name them all. Fact is, women can handle power and handle it well. That's something I'd like a lot more women to understand.

My government's pro-women initiatives, starting from Mission Shakti to Mamata, along with 50% reservations for women in the panchayat and urban local body polls have helped empower women in political, social, and economic spheres.

I love women - all types, all colors, petite, plus size. But in particular, I was raised by black women, and I feel like there is just something beautiful about black women.

I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.

As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently.

The South just keeps right on playing good time Southern music.

Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America.

The only difference between men and women in science is that the women have the babies. This makes it more difficult for women in science but should not be seen as a barrier, for it is merely another challenge to be overcome.

I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

I grew up in southern California in the '80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

I've enjoyed my time in the American League, the fans of Southern California and other friendships.

Being from the South, I was really into Southern rap, but I listened to a lot of stuff from all over.

We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons.

Cruising on the old rice boats in Kerala, southern India, with my wife was amazing.

The Ryman and the Grand Ole Opry, if you're a Southern boy, is just a way of life.

I think empowerment of women is exactly what's happening now, with women being portrayed as human beings, and not just black and white. Men can be the anti-hero all the time, and it's cool, but when women are, they're twisted or messed up or something is wrong with them. I think it's just about portraying women in the world as equals to men, and vice versa.

To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.

I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it's a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let's own who we are and use it as a strength.

Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell.

I think women dress for other women to let them know what their deal is. Because if women were only dressing for men, there would be nothing but Victoria's Secret. There would be no Dior.

In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code that guarantees women will make up half of a candidates' list for office.

Any woman's right to self-identify is a personal freedom I fight for, and those women who claim trans women are not women are perpetuators of gender-based oppression, and all feminists should be upset and moved to action against this.

There is so much pressure on women to be heterosexual, and this pressure is both so pervasive and so completely denied, that I think heterosexuality cannot come naturally to many women: I think that widespread heterosexuality among women is a highly artificial product of the patriarchy. . . . I think that most women have to be coerced into heterosexuality.

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

I was a Southern California boy raised on rap music and cussed like a sailor.

Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase. It implied a lot of new content: child care, flexible work hours, new standards of creditworthiness, new symbolism, new lyrics.

There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things.

Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound.

'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.

The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched.

Canadians shouldn't come down to Southern California and take jobs away from Mexicans.

Women and men look at their life, and women say, What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time? And women are intelligent enough to say, I need more time. And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.

Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.

Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle.

Women and men look at their life, and women say, 'What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time?' And women are intelligent enough to say, 'I need more time.' And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.

I dont feel qualified or that I really have time to be involved with the Southern Baptist Convention.

The first job I ever had was right here in San Francisco with Southern Pacific.