Feminism… I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‚Free to be You and Me.‘

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Nobody is my boss.

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

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

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

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

Come on, you can’t name a truck after a chick.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

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

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

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.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

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

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there’s so much pressure on you.

Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

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

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

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

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.