Famous Quotes

"Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us."

Toni Morrison on Women

More quotes about Women

• "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Women

• "I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

  Marilyn Monroe on Women

• "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Women

• "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Women

• "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

  John Lennon on Women

More quotes by Toni Morrison

• "You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone."

• "Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form."

• "At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough."

• "There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people."

• "Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us."