Quote by Alice Walker
I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to m

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, black feminist does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And its just… womanish. – Alice Walker

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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or ones people that has not previously been taken into account. – Alice Walker

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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. – Alice Walker

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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. – Alice Walker

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The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy. – Ellery Queen

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Women rule the world. Its not really worth fighting because they know what theyre doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled. – Jon Bon Jovi

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You think intercourse is a private act its not, its a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. – Andrea Dworkin

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Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? – Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch, 1970

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