Quotes About Awareness

Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know.

I'm not big on women looking naive.

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand.

Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment.

Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive.

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.

Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.

The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.