Quotes About Community

Women have to support other women.

I think of the women I know, and very few of them are obsessed with shopping, or with getting a guy - they want their own thing, they have their own network going on.

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.

I have met women who don't have close women friends, and I've always been like, "How could that possibly be?"

Often, women who lose babies are blamed for the loss of those children and are ostracised.

Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I.' For women, our 'we' is our saving grace Women's relationships are like a renewable source of power.

Open source is important to our orgs as a talent pool; we need better representation of women.

It has crossed my mind that I would like to run or help to run a pro women's tournament, although I really don't know much about organizing an event (it seems overwhelming actually).

Women's voices, LGBT voices, and the voices of people of color are all needed in any art form if we want to explore the true possibilities of that art form. Diversity is strength.

Obviously Feministing is kind of a women's space in a certain way, even though we have a lot of male readership and people who don't identify as women.

I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.

The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves.

All women are sisters.

One thing that I would like to do that I've seen them not do that well is take women all through the process of the postpartum period in a more meaningful way. That would be my agenda.

I don't consider my homosexuality a political thing. I consider it a sexual and spiritual thing. I only started going to political rallies to meet women.

We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

Women have to stop pretending the choices we make, particularly if we have a platform, don't affect others. We have to be held accountable.

We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area.

I created EIDWIM20s as a voice for women like myself.

I've had great people come in my life, meaning not just men, but women, support me and empower me. So that has lifted me to be the woman I am.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

The Million Man March would never have been successful if it were not for the women who stood with us and helped to organize to make the March what it eventually became.