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

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame. – Alice Walker

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Money
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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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Society
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Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul. – Alice Walker

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If a woman must make a fool of herself, the least a man can do is to let her be one in her own way. – When Ladies Meet, 1941 movie written by Rachel Crothers, John Meehan, Leon Gordo

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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. – B. R. Ambedkar

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When anything goes, its women who lose. – Camille Paglia

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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. – Samuel Johnson

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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. – Thomas Huxley

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Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well. – Steve Brown

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I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. – Charles C. Finn

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I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records. – Joan Jett

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