Quotes About Struggle

When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.

Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.

It's really hard to meet good women in Hollywood.

For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.

You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.

Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.

Comedy is quite a difficult place for queers and for women.

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.

Beautiful women are the torment of my existence.

It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

So much of the world and the systems that we live within are made to keep us from feeling like we're free. The way that black women in American came to be is just diametrically opposed to being free.

I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated

I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

There is not a revolution that succe Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed.

I was inspired by my life. I was inspired by the lives of many women doctors around me. So [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor ] is a mixture.

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.

I relate to [women and children in women's shelters] on a personal level because I've been there myself.

Old age is women's hell.

After Kidulthood, I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.

There are times a women's just got to fight even if she knows it's a losing battle

I'm still trying to do films about black women.

Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.