Top 25 White Women Quotes

Words matter. These are the best White Women Quotes from famous people such as Rebecca Traister, Gloria Steinem, Freddie Wong, Sherman Alexie, Linda Sarsour, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

After Emancipation, black women married earlier and mor

After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was true until after World War II. But middle-class white women married less and later.
Rebecca Traister
In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage – often on religious grounds.
Gloria Steinem
The Asian male has an interesting history as far as Western appropriation. At one point, we were completely sexless Chinamen building the railroads. Then, World War II came around, and it was like, Asian guys are coming after the white women. We became a menace for a second.
Freddie Wong
I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there’s some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let’s say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.
Sherman Alexie
If you have a march that’s entirely white women or a march that maybe is entirely black women, it’s going inspire those who look like them, which is fine. Our idea is that we want to inspire as diverse of a group of people as possible.
Linda Sarsour
Sexism isn’t a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn’t happen to black and white women the same way.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
I think white women need to wake up and say, ‘Not all women are white,’ three times in front of the mirror.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Emmitt Till had walked into a cultural narrative in which his role was already tragically written. It was a narrative designed to preserve white supremacy. So it gave power – the right to kill – to any white claiming to defend the honor of white women.
Shelby Steele
The fact is this: NASA was desegregated by a white male. NASA was not desegregated by a black male. NASA was not desegregated by white women.
Theodore Melfi
Black women I’m talking to you, because it’s not white women, it’s not Latino, it’s not Native American – I checked, it’s y’all. The self hate is ridiculous. Why do you hate yourself so much, why do you hate your texture, why do you hate your culture, why do you hate your history?
Summer Walker
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women… When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
bell hooks
Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it’d be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican.
Don Lemon
There’s a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.
Robin DiAngelo
When the #MeToo movement started and went viral, it was everyday people all around the world. The fact that the stories continue to be about famous white women has everything to do with who the media places attention on.
Tarana Burke
It’s all too common that when we talk about diversity and inclusion, and gender equity in the workplace, it translates to just white women.
Meena Harris
A lot of African American women wanted to emulate white women. But I said in my mind, rationally thinking, there is no way you are going to get your hair that straight, especially in the summer.
Claudette Colvin
I think it would be difficult to argue that I’m a net-negative for womankind. I’ve tried pretty hard to bring in unusual female voices and perspectives. Not just young women and not just white women, either. I don’t know that I’m the best target for improvement. I don’t know that I’m the problem.
Ariel Levy
White women are themselves oppressed and that they would therefore be able to align themselves with other oppressed people.
Kirsten Powers
When we talk about feminism – equality without apology for all – we can’t be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.
Christine Pelosi
In popular culture, there is this notion that African-American men and women can’t get together, and we’re having these issues. I think it’s an American problem because I know a lot of white women and men who are having just as many issues trying to find ‘that person’ as anyone.
Salim Akil
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya Angelou
While white women and men of color also experience discrimination, all too often their experiences are taken as the only point of departure for all conversations about discrimination. Being front and center in conversations about racism or sexism is a complicated privilege that is often hard to see.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Feminism is being broken open, to welcome more people than just white women of a certain class.
Phoebe Robinson
I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.
Alice Walker
Latinas’ life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men.
Grace Napolitano