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.
I think that's something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that's one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.
Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
My mother made me truly appreciate women.
For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it's all manufactured.
If we're discussing women's empowerment and equal rights, then yes, I support it.
I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.
I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Men and women have strengths that complement each other.
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
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.
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.
In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.
Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.
Women hear rhythm differently than men.
I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.
Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.
Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.
You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.
Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.
On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.
I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.
I like my whisky old and my women young.
Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.
I just like short hair on women; I think it's cool.
I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.
When I hear the words 'Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,' I think, 'What. A. Dream.' There are no negative connotations to it.