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 want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

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.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

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.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they’re so visible. They’re out in the open. When they’re visible, it’s a lot easier to deal with them.

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 don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Every summer’s mine.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

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

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

In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

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.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

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

I break ground. I trailblaze.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

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

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

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

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

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

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That’s my mission.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

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

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

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

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 have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

You give before you get.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

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

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

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.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

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

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