Personally I’m not a feminist, as I can’t stand puritans.

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

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

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.

Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I’ve ever met.

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

Women should be obscene and not heard.

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

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

We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

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.

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.

I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

I’m not a big politics guy.

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.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

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

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

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

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.

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

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

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.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

I’m not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it’s really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.

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

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

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

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

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.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

I live in Hollywood, but you can’t make me love Hollywood. I’ll never love Hollywood.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They’re not men.

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

I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

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

I’ve never considered musical equipment very sacred.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

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

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

I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

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

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