Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

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

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

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.

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

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.

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

It’s a facet of the gay rights movement that people don’t think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn’t until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana’s ‚head and master rule,‘ that the husband was head and master of the house.

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

It’s a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I’d be a drag queen.

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.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

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

Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

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.

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.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

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

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

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

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

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

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.

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

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.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

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

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

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

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.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

I love stories about women.

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.

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 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.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.