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

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

Character is power.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I will not be triumphed over.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

I can express myself.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

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.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

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.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

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

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

Everybody is entertained to death.

Before all else, be armed.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

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.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

You could tell ‚The Handmaid’s Tale‘ from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

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 didn’t want to set up a women’s studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it’s male-dominated.

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

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

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.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

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

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

I am fearless.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

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

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

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

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

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