Maya Angelou Woman Quotations

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail-and learn powerful lessons-from the failure-so that in the end,she didn't fail at all.

Being a woman is hard work.

I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.