American Woman

The history of American

The history of American women is all about leaving home – crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own. Gail Collins

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it’s less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women’s role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders. Gail Collins

Michelle Obama is going

Michelle Obama is going to be an amazing First Lady: She’s intelligent, capable and motivated. She just embodies everything that an American woman should represent. Eva Longoria

I am a Cajun

I am a Cajun Baby in a Texas girl, an all-American woman and a global goddess. Erin Cummings

Few countries have produced

Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class. She not only considers herself the equal of man, but his superior, especially in her purity, goodness, and morality. Small wonder that the American suffragist claims for her vote the most miraculous powers. … Read more

rule number one for

rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right. Elizabeth Hawes

The IWW [Industrial Workers

The IWW [Industrial Workers of the World] has been accused of pushing women to the front. This is not true. Rather, the women have not been kept in back, and so they have naturally moved to the front. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

American women of wealth,

American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low ideas of womanhood, to make laws for you and your daughters awake to the danger of your present position and demand that woman, too, shall be represented in the government! … Read more

African-American women account for

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases. Elijah Cummings

With children no longer

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits. Eleanor Holmes Norton