Joy Bryant Quotes

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

Joy Bryant

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• I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Children
  • Anxiety

• Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.

  

  La India
  • Life
  • Women
  • Admit

• Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Women
  • Character
  • Intriguing

• My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Women
  • Charity
  • Refugee

• One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Done
  • Perfect

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
  • Future
  • Government

• I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Different
  • Women
  • Nature

• Like most women, I have days where I feel like today I'm not leaving the house - you know days where you've got a spot on your nose or when you've just got off a flight, eaten fish and chips and feel really bloated - that one happens a lot to me.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Women
  • Today
  • House

• I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Up
  • Women
  • Country

• My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Job
  • Same
  • Critics

• I feel like I'm here to bust those misconceptions and stereotypes of Muslim women.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Stereotypes

• Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Other

• Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us - don't take us for granted!

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Mess

• I started doing flats because women would always apologize for wearing them when they met me, as if they had to be in heels when meeting a shoe designer.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Women
  • Meeting
  • Designer

• My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian women have been left out of politics.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Long
  • Women
  • Hope

• Like the women in my family, I've found the women in my lab a hard-nosed, ambitious lot who have gone on to be faculty members at top universities. In my own family, it is my father who is prone to bursting into tears.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Women
  • Family
  • Father

• I have, indeed, lived most of my life overseas, but I've returned repeatedly to work in film, special television productions, and the New York theater. There have also been tributes and similar occasions that have called me back to Hollywood. I've returned so often, I almost feel that I've never left.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Life
  • Work
  • New York

• It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Always
  • Envy
  • Imitate

• I like working, I just don't like to get involved in the competitiveness of it.

  

  Brie Larson

• Mr. Gregory: Late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and author of the -well-known Examples. Few in so short a life have done so much for science. The high sense which I entertain of his merits as a mathematician, is mingled with feelings of gratitude for much valuable assistance rendered to me in my earlier essays.

  

  George Boole
  • Life
  • Done
  • High

• Women are the harshest critics of other women.

  

  Joy Bryant
  • Women
  • Critics
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