What can your kids teach you?’ Well, I believe something different about kids. We don’t own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen. Faye Wattleton Read Quote
My mother was from Mississippi, or is from ‘Mississippi;’ my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country. Faye Wattleton Read Quote
This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don’t matter is not quite the way our history would define it. Faye Wattleton Read Quote
The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities. Faye Wattleton Read Quote
We have a very long way to go to really penetrate the power structure. Until that happens, you will not see stability among the workforce, among women – in the workforce among women. Faye Wattleton Read Quote
Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts. Faye Wattleton Read Quote
A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough. Faye Wattleton Read Quote
I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven’t had very good modeling in submission. Faye Wattleton Read Quote
Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don’t look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don’t disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don’t want is a society that tells me I have to. Faye Wattleton Read Quote
In 1985, I saw a tape of myself where my eyes were puffy. I looked very tired and bedraggled and not as youthful as I would like to have been. Faye Wattleton Read Quote
