Quotes About Expression

People want real. And there are a lot of women out there doing that.

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.

I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.

I have as much pink as you can have. I love to see other women in pink. It's good for every shade of skin and hair.

To most women art is a form of scandal.

If women want to be appreciated for what we're saying, we've got to wear turtlenecks and long pants.

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

Are you sick and tired of men sniveling and whining about how we women want to smother them? If you can still hear them whining you aren't holding the pillow down hard enough.

What is a woman? A woman is chaos. Chaos is the naturally perfect state of all things.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?

Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.

Words are women, deeds are men.

French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.

Fashion is emotional, and the way women look at it is emotional, so it's very important to try to connect with a woman's idea of how she might feel.

Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.

Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.

Women who say it's not O.K. are [interpreted as] wet blankets or sore losers.

Women can explore so much in dressing. But if I was a guy I would wear vintage suits constantly. With crazy ties!

Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.

Men want to put their signature at the bottom; women don't want to finish that letter.

The masculine/feminine look fascinates me. It is not only an issue of empowering women, but I think the shapes look great.

My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association.