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

Boldness be my friend.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

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

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

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

I was raised to be independent.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

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

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality – they don’t feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married – who divorce in three seconds – don’t want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

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.

Every summer’s mine.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

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.

God helps those who help themselves.

To lead people walk behind them.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

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

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

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?

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

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

I’ve used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool… but that’s just natural.

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.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

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.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

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

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.