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

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

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

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

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.

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

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

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

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.

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

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

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

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

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

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

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.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

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.

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

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.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

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

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

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

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

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.

Woman was God’s second mistake.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

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

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

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

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

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

There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.

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.

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

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

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

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.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

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.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

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.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives‘ mouths.

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.

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.

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

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

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.

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

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.

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 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.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.