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.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

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.

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.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

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 battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

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 been a feminist.

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

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

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.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

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.

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

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

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

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.

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

I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women’s movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.

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

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

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.

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

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 think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

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.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

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

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.

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

If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.

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?

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

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

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 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.

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

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

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 don’t want people saying, ‚Should we get a female director?‘ I want to hear, ‚Should we get a great director for this movie?‘

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 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!

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