Wangari Maathai Quotes

And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either. We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly.

As Latinas, we tend to be overly partial considering stereotypes. I'm interested in being naughty and edgy.

The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

I don't much like to think that being a bachelor girl limits how you see the world. On the other hand, I know it certainly limits how the world sees you.

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

I'm not big on women looking naive.

I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

I'm such a girly-girl! I don't know why people don't see that.

No, I'm not! I'm not a tomboy! I love my makeup! That's not true! I'm not a tomboy!

I'm such a girly-girl! I don't know why people don't see that.

Im not your biggest girly girl.

People have a perception of me because of Victoria's Secret that I'm sexy, but I'm not a sexy girl. I'm very tomboyish.

My wife is Dutch and very independent. She never wanted or needed to be married.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl.

If I don't measure up as an American writer, at least leave me to my delusion.

Stop trying to be men. Let's be women. And let's let men be men. Let's empower them to be men, because I fell like they're falling away.

My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.

I don't know what I am if I'm not a woman.

I'm quite feminine.

I think we still have a long way to go in understanding that feminist and femininity are not opposites.

Dressing up like a woman does not make me less of a man.

We're told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There's an inherent contradiction.