The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

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

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

Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

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

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

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

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there’s so much pressure on you.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

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.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

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.

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.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

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.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

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

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.

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

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

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

I want the world to see my body.

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

I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.

I’ve only written one science-fiction book: ‚Fahrenheit 451.‘ That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.

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

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

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.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

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?

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.

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.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Some people would like me to be round again.

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

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

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

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

I’m not a centerfold.

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

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

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.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman’s body is very beautiful.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

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 don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

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