We're Going to Need More Wine Quotes

“An empress does not concern herself with the antics of fools”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“Here’s to us being afraid and doing it anyway.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“I remember the moment I realized I was free, looking in a mirror and saying, “I choose my motherfucking self.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“So repeat after me: I resolve to embrace my sexuality and my freedom to do with my body parts as I see fit. And I will learn about my body so I can take care of it and get the pleasure I deserve. I will share that information with anyone and everyone, and not police the usage of any vagina but my own. So help me Judy Blume.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“Look, you can’t take your pussy with you,” I said. “Use it. Enjoy it. Fuck, fuck, fuck, until you run out of dicks. Travel to other countries and have sex. Explore the full range of everything, and feel zero shame. Don’t let society’s narrow scope about what they think you should do with your vagina determine what you do with your vagina.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential to every take, and be on top of your job, or they will replace you.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“Until you ask my husband those same questions, I just can’t answer them anymore.” But I can’t stop. I can’t help myself. “Do you know why no one asks men how they balance it all? It’s because there is no expectation of that. Bringing home money is enough. We don’t expect you to be anything more than a provider, men. But a working woman? Not only do you have to bring home the bacon and fry it up, you gotta be a size double-zero, too. You’ve got to volunteer at the school, you’ve got to be a sex kitten, a great friend, a community activist. There are all these expectations that we put on women that we don’t put on men. In the same way, we never inquire about what’s happening in a man’s urethra. ‘Low sperm count, huh? That why you don’t have kids? Have you tried IVF?”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“Your world is only as small as you make it.”
― gabrielle union , We're Going to Need More Wine

“Minstrelsy makes the audience comfortable. Now that I am on the other side of it, and proud of my blackness, they wouldn't know what to do with me. People don't know what to do with you if you are not trying to assimilate.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“But the more empowered women in the workforce, the better. The more that women mentor women, the stronger our answer is to the old-boys’ network that we’ve been left out of. We can’t afford to leave any woman behind. We need every woman on the front lines lifting each other up . . . for the good of all of us and the women who come behind us.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“Modern business is set up to squeeze out women who “want it all”—which is mostly just code for demanding equal pay for equal work. But the more empowered women in the workforce, the better. The more that women mentor women, the stronger our answer is to the old-boys’ network that we’ve been left out of. We can’t afford to leave any woman behind. We need every woman on the front lines lifting each other up . . . for the good of all of us and the women who come behind us. It’s tough to get past my own fears, so I have to remind myself that this is an experiment, to boldly go where no grown-ass woman has gone before. When we refuse to be exiled to the shadows as we mature, we get to be leaders who choose how we treat other women. If I don’t support and mentor someone like Ryan, that’s working from a place of fear. And if I put my foot on a rising star, that’s perpetuating a cycle that will keep us all weak. The actresses in the generation”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“You’re gonna have to be bigger, badder, better, just to be considered equal. You’re gonna have to do twice as much work and you’re not going to get any credit.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“My parents gave me the pep talk when I started school, the same speech all black parents give their kids: You're gonna have to be bigger, badder, better, just to be considered equal. You're gonna have to do twice as much work and you're not going to get any credit for your accomplishments or for overcoming adversity. Most black people grow accustomed to the fact that we have to excel just to be seen as existing, and this is a lesson passed down from generation to generation. You can either be Super Negro or the forgotten Negro.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“And anything I have accomplished, I did so not in spite of being a black woman, but because I am a black woman".”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“But even when you know better, it doesn't mean you'are going to do better”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“Carrie Fisher. “Stay afraid, but do it anyway.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“By the way, you can work on yourself and still have sex with someone at the same time. Or at least around the same time. Your pussy and brain don’t have to take turns. Besides, there’s a bunch of hours in the day. You can actually get to therapy and go on a date on the same day.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“You were fly, dope, and amazing from birth,” I would tell that girl now. “From the second you took your first breath, you were worthwhile and valid. And I’m sorry you had to wait so long to learn that for yourself.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“You can’t even think of ten things that make you happy,” she said. “What made you think you were ready for marriage? How is someone else supposed to make you happy if you don’t even know what makes you happy?”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“Carrie Fisher had a line I love about why she and Paul Simon ended their marriage: “Things were getting worse faster than we could lower our standards.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“I am told no one wants to hear about it. I even hear it from other people of color in Hollywood. Some have climbed the mountain and have been able to assimilate so thoroughly, they think they are in a parallel universe. “You’re sabotaging your own success by limiting yourself to being a black woman,” they say. They tell us that if we just stripped away these layers of identity, we would be perceived not for our color or gender, but for our inner core. Our “humanness.” My humanness doesn’t insulate me from racism or sexism. In fact, I think I can deal effectively with the world precisely because I am a black woman who is so comfortable in my black-womanness. I know what I can accomplish. And anything I have accomplished, I did so not in spite of being a black woman, but because I am a black woman. This is not the message that assimilated people of color in Hollywood want to hear. In exchange for a temporary pass that they think is permanent, these ones who’ve “made it” then turn and yell back to the others, “No, keep going! Assimilation is the key! Deny your victimhood! Let go of your identity.” Better bring your mittens, that’s what I know.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“An empress does not concern herself with the antics of fools.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“What positive happened in your life because you tore this woman down?” she asked. “And, by the way, you showed exactly how much power she has over you because you spent an hour talking about her to a roomful of people.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“In Omaha, we were part of the largest African American extended family in Nebraska. In Pleasanton, we would be the chocolate chip in the cookie.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“You move your kids to this all-white community and force them to go to these all-white schools. You think you’ve priced yourself out of this shit. You’ve done all these things and then this happens.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“This fear resonates through every industry. For my friends in corporate America there’s a reasonable fear about “mentoring” young women to be their best selves if that means they could take your job.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“In one study, Hunter found that a lighter-skinned woman earned, on average, twenty-six hundred dollars more a year than her darker sister. In her 2002 study of the color stratification of women, Hunter also presented real statistical evidence showing that light-skinned African American women had “a clear advantage in the marriage market and were more likely to marry high-status men than were darker-skinned women.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“The problem is, there’s always an audience for negativity.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“My parents gave me the pep talk when I started school, the same speech all black parents give their kids: You’re gonna have to be bigger, badder, better, just to be considered equal. You’re gonna have to do twice as much work and you’re not going to get any credit for your accomplishments or for overcoming adversity.

Most black people grow accustomed to the fact that we have to excel just to be seen as exisiting and this is a lesson passed down from generation to generation.”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine