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

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

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?

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.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

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

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

Chemotherapy isn’t good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, ‚Well that is a good thing because it’s supposed to be poison. If it’s making the tumor feel this queasy, then I’m OK with it.‘

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

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

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

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

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

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

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.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

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

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

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

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

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

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

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

When you give, it comes back to you.

I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

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.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

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

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

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

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

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

I implore you to see the universe as a warm and supportive one because you’ll look for evidence to support this view. When you anticipate that the universe is friendly, you see friendly people. You look for circumstances to work in your favor. You anticipate good fortune flowing into your life.

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

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

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

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

I’m comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it’s stretched. Ha ha.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women’s movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

I definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

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.‘

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.