Ntozake Shange Quotes

If our women are willing to die with us, who is there to say no?

I think women supporting women is priceless.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

Women need to support women.

We women have to stick together.

I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!

It's sad how people want to see us females go against each other. Never been for that. Never will.

I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.

Women standing up for each other is critically important.

The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.

I think women should be in women's corner even more, wherever... across the world, women need to be in each other's corners.

I don't understand women who don't love women. I love women. I just think they are magnificent creatures.

Support other women! We are taught to be competitive with other women, to vie with them for the 'girl spot' in a group or job. Anything that helps an individual woman is good for all of us! Love and support your friends!

Women should get together and become the pillars of support for each other.

I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

I have such a strong belief in women's ability to sustain each other.

I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.

For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.

It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.

I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.

I'm constantly astounded by how amazing women are. And as we go through all these different stages of life as long as you share them with others and say, 'Well, this is bloody weird', you can get through everything.

Women one hundred percent support each other in the movie industry.

My subject has always been women. And I don't want to sound, like, preposterously idealistic, but I would like, in my lifetime, to experience a world where women, all kind of women, can connect and support each other.

The good news is when we are in full-on sisterhood, women are the most powerful, political force in America.