Quotes About Recognition

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

Men have to be reminded that women exist.

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

Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, "You're good, you're pretty, I give you permission."

A man, as we see in this world, is chaos, but he doesn't recognize that fact so he tries to bring order into everything. Order is disorder. Order creates disorder.

Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

You know, I've always considered women to be people.

Women are underserved and underestimated as consumers.

... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem.

I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.

For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.

I think the men and women serving in Iraq today deserve special recognition for that.

It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.

To be on stage, to be sharing a stage with Lauryn Hill, Grace Jones, SZA, Kelis, and all these incredible women, I'm like 'When did this happen?'

Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.

We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.

We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.

To be included in the group with women like Glenn Close and Kyra Sedgwick is a little bit astonishing to me. To even be mentioned in the same sentence as Glenn Close is just ridiculous.

I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.

I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women.

For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes.

Don't underestimate how fine you are.