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They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

They [women] can use their abilities to support each other, even as they develop more effective and appropriate ways of dealing with power.... Women do not need to diminish other women[they] need the power to advance their own development, but they do not "need" the power to limit the development of others.

They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of the Woman. Then from 1975 to 1985 they gave us a decade, the Decade of the Woman. I said at the time, who knows, if we behave they may let us into the whole thing. Well, we didn't behave and here we are.

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used.

This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

This is your life!!! The children/husbands/lovers are just one chapter. The stronger we (women) get the more loving we can be- to all.

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything that makes me conscious of my need for Him. If prayer is birthed out of desperation, then anything that makes me desperate for God is a blessing.

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.

Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.

Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.

Through the proper application of kundalini, a woman can quickly become aware of the tremendous power that resides inside herself and reach enlightenment.

Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

'Tis social converse, animates the soul.

Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest that the cry of one-half the human family be stifled. ... The world has had to limp along with the wobbling gait and one-sided hesitancy of a man with one eye. Suddenly the bandage is removed from the other eye and the whole body is filled with light. It sees a circle where before it saw a segment. The darkened eye restored, every member rejoices with it.

[to a teenage girl] Resolve to be economically independent before you marry anyone.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.

To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject. Torn between two loves, emotionally confused, the desire to fly an incurable disease eating out your life in the slow torture of frustration-she cannot be a simple, natural personality.

Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation.

To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

Today, fashion is really about sensuality-how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.

To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To satisfy ourselves, to teach our lovers to satisfy us, to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humor, to make them visible so they cannot be ravaged in the dark without great consequence, so that our center, our point, our motor, our dream, is no longer detached, mutilated, numb, broken, invisible, or ashamed.

To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

To most women art is a form of scandal.

Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.

Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for economic and social emancipation .

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to admit that your own resources were so weak you had to resort to magic and miracle cures for healing. To acquire faith was to mobilize the powers of an overly active imagination.

To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man.

To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful!

Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.