Quotes About Support

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with statistics, for instance, she pulled me aside. 'If you're lying in the ditch with a truck on your ankle,' she said patiently, 'you don't send someone to the library to find out how much the truck weighs. You get it off!

The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.

If you do anything people care about, people will take care of you.

Anybody can be with you when you're right, but only friends are with you when you mess up.

Men would support us, we are told, if only we learned how to ask in the right way. It's a subtle and effective way of not only blaming the victim, but making the victim blame herself.

We talked about the reasons to support political leaders who support us, never mind party labels. It was the kind of campaigning only a movement could do.

ANYBODY CAN BE WITH YOU when you're right, but only friends are with you when you mess up. Many

American travel seems to need an advocate.

Love is wanting what's best for the other person. Romance is wanting the other person.

Every woman knows there is a big difference between help that is designed to keep you dependent, and help that is designed to make you independent.

The idea that women are "our own worst enemies" forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted to. When

Public opinion polls have long proved there is majority support for pretty much every issue that the women's movement has brought up, but those of us, women or men, who identify with feminism are still made to feel isolated, wrong, out of step.

Love is wanting what's best for the other person. Romance is wanting the other person.

We could double our chances by working for one of these candidates, not against the other. For now, I've figured out how to answer reporters when they ask if I'm supporting Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. I just say yes.

Instead, we talked about the reasons to support political leaders who support us, never mind party labels. It was the kind of campaigning only a movement could do.

can replace being in the same space. That's exactly why we need to keep creating the temporary worlds of meetings, small and large, on campuses and everywhere else. In them, we discover we're not alone, we learn from one another, and so we keep going toward shared goals.

You know the hospital shows on television?" this woman asks. "When someone's heart stops and has to be restarted with electric paddles? That's what you and Margaret did for us. Please tell her daughter our hearts have been going ever since.

Both white and black women were more likely than their male counterparts to support Hillary Clinton—and in my observation, also more likely to believe that she couldn't win. Male and female black voters were more likely than white voters to support Obama and also to believe he couldn't win. Each group was made pessimistic by the depth of the bias they had experienced.

You white women, Mrs. Greene said kindly, as if reading my mind, if you don't stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?

We are not put on this earth to see through one another. We are put on this earth to see one another through.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

However far you go from here, you must carry me with you in your heart. If you are lonely, you must know that every hour I will be thinking of you. If you are among evil people, you must be like the lion, gathering your strength and awaiting your time. That time will come, and when it comes, you will come back to us.