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

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

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.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

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.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

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

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

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

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?

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.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

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.

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

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

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

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.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

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

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

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.

At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don’t like that. It’s great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you’re worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

Everything is generated through your own will power.