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

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

I was a proponent of the ERA.

I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.

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

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.

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

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

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.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

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

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

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

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

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren’t empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we’re not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.

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

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

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!

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.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.

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

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

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

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

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.

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

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives‘ mouths.

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn’t a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn’t be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn’t realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.

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

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’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

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

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church – things like that – I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

As we’ve seen time and again, women and girls who are out there working, they are truly force multipliers, spreading opportunity through their families and communities – and not just by creating programs and nonprofit organizations, not just by hiring other women, but also by serving as role models themselves.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary.

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.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

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.

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.

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

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.