Quotes About Expression

Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'

Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.

I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?

I feel nowadays that both women and men are embracing their individuality rather than being defined by gender roles.

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men — at least they can cry.

When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free.

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.

The Louis Vuitton woman is more about a quality - a quality within some women that needs to come forward, to be noticed and recognised.

Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.

Real women are fat. And thin. And neither. And both. And otherwise.

I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story in every kink, curl, and coil.

Every woman is wrong until she cries.

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

I can't express how much admiration I have for women in general, who walk around in high heels, but, drag queens, oh my god.

What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love.