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.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

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

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can’t do that, once every two months or every four months.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

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

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

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.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

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

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Debates, I hate.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

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.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

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

If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

Let my enemies devour each other.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

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.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.