Quotes About Awareness

I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.

We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

The only bitterness I had is: Where is the conversation on gender? That's been going on since there have been men and women, and still we're not hearing about what they're going through.

Any woman I know can smell a boyfriend a mile away. Women are intuitive, they know when a guy is interested but he's not going to be there for her in that boyfriend-y way.

Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.

If you're a smart guy, you should really try to find out what women are thinking. I mean, we are 51 percent of the population.

I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.

I think this whole Billy Bush thing just pushed women over the edge because it's so visceral.

When I first started out I actually was trying to use music to promote feminist ideas and at certain points, anti-violence against women and girls-type causes I was involved in.

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

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.

That's a very, very touchy subject, domestic violence. I think women don't realize is it's something that's very prevalent. It goes on, on a daily basis.

Because women don't expect to have heart disease, a lot of times they don't seek help if they have the early symptoms of a heart attack.

People who have "their own issues" often don't stand back and look at the big picture- they're too busy orchestrating their own issues.

Don't underestimate how fine you are.

Did you hear what I said? It was very profound.

I focus on a lot of women's issues.

It's really not enough to just have black women. A really good idea could be to comment on how they are treated by society.

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.

Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.

When I was a dancer, I felt this great sense of knowing my body and being in my body, and I think it's really easy as women to lose that and not really be one and loving it.

The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians.