The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world.

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

What we know is that when girls don’t go to school, they earn lower salaries. They get married earlier. They have higher infant and maternal mortality rates. And they’re more likely to contract HIV, less likely to immunize their children.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, ‚So what’s the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.‘ Most of her lifetime, it’s true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

I don’t want people saying, ‚Should we get a female director?‘ I want to hear, ‚Should we get a great director for this movie?‘

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters – but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They’re not men.

I didn’t want to set up a women’s studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it’s male-dominated.

I remember being in Japan when Destiny’s Child put out ‚Independent Women,‘ and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‚Mad Men‘ episode.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

If I were a woman, I’d simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I’d got the vote.

Man can never be a woman’s equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

Woman was God’s second mistake.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.