Quote by Alice Walker
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smash

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my fathers head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. – Alice Walker

Other quotes by Alice Walker

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any. – Alice Walker

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power
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Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. – 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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And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go. – Lara Flynn Boyle

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To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world? – Christopher Hitchens

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Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty. – Julie Nixon Eisenhower

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Im for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing. – Alice Walker

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