Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

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 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.

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.

No one is pro-abortion.

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.

I was a proponent of the ERA.

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

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

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

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

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

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

I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

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

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.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

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

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

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

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.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.

Woman was God’s second mistake.

I always saw my role as getting LGBT to support the immigrant rights movement – which they did – and getting Latino organizations to support the women’s movement, for reproductive rights. So that’s kind of the work that I’ve always been doing.

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

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, ‚So what’s the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.‘ Most of her lifetime, it’s true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

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.

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.

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.

I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.

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

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.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

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.

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.

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

Sexism is real in this country.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

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 wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Feminism… I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‚Free to be You and Me.‘

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

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

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

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

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

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.

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