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

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.

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.

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 owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

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.

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

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.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.

I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Sexism is real in this country.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman’s body is very beautiful.

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

They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

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 love stories about women.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

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.

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.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

I was a proponent of the ERA.

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 will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

I remember being in Japan when Destiny’s Child put out ‚Independent Women,‘ and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

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.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

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.

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?

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

In the ’50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

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

Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

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

I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.

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

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.‘

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

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

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

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.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

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

I’ve never been a feminist.

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.

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.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.