The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.
I liked women as a shape to dress.
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.
You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.
My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.
Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.
I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.
The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.
Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.
The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
I certainly don't think of my life as a fairy tale. I think of myself as a modern, contemporary woman who has had to deal with all kinds of problems that many women today have to deal with.
I'm always interested in relationships between women. I'm always interested in how women relate to each other, whether it's a family relationship or it's a friend relationship. That's such uncharted territory in cinema.
Women should be obscene and not heard.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced.
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.
You have to be very careful with women friends.
It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
Perhaps my problem in marriage - and it is the problem of many women - was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.
Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.