Tracy McMillan Quotes

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

There's this whole feeling that women should be small and quiet and polite, and I don't think that's really gotten us anywhere.

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.

Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

Women have been interesting forever.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

There's nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women.

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

It's important to say women are complex.

We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else's Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude.

Owing to cultural beliefs, girls have been taught to be small, disappear and not take our full place in society. But that is not what we are meant to be.

How can feminism be pro-women without being pro-motherhood? There is nothing more unique about being a woman.

The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.

I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?'