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

Come on, you can’t name a truck after a chick.

I love the women’s movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.

I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world.

The society in ‚The Handmaid’s Tale‘ is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

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

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.

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.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

For most of history, Anonymous was 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.

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.

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.

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

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

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.

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

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.

Woman was God’s second mistake.

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

The masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Women should be obscene and not heard.

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

Sexism is real in this country.

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

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

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

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’ve never considered musical equipment very sacred.

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.

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.

Naturally, my stories are about women – I’m a woman. I don’t know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I’m not always sure what is meant by ‚feminist.‘ In the beginning, I used to say, ‚Well, of course I’m a feminist.‘ But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I’m not.

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

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.

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?

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

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

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

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

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

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

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

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

Feminism… I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‚Free to be You and Me.‘

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

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.

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.

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

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

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

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’m not a big politics guy.

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