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

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

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

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

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

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

You are victors, not victims!

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

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Now I do whatever I want.

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.

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

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

I’m a can-do girl.

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.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

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

I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

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.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

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

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

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.

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

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

Boldness be my friend.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

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.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

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.

I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

It’s a facet of the gay rights movement that people don’t think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn’t until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana’s ‚head and master rule,‘ that the husband was head and master of the house.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

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

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

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

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

It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

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

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

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.