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

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

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

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

What we know is that when girls don’t go to school, they earn lower salaries. They get married earlier. They have higher infant and maternal mortality rates. And they’re more likely to contract HIV, less likely to immunize their children.

I started really noticing, more and more, how men will plagiarize and take credit for women’s work… I’ve noticed that it just happens a lot.

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

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

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

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

If I were a woman, I’d simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I’d got the vote.

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.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

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.

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

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.

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

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, ‚So what’s the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.‘ Most of her lifetime, it’s true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

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

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.‘

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

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.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

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

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

I like pushing boundaries.

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

Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

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

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

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.

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.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

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.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

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.

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.

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.

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.‘

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

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.

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

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

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

Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

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.

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

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

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.

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.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.