From a creative standpoint, I’m interested not only in the idea of helping couples and women, but challenging myself creatively, and doing each one better than the last thing I did. I think by doing that, by adding a visual element to these films, it really makes a huge difference.

I felt I could become a performer who stood out, who challenged the way things were done and make it more creative and also encourage men and women to not be afraid of their sexuality.

What was the past to me as soon as I met you? It was a dead thing altogether. I became another woman, filled full of new life from you. How could I be the early one? Why do you not see this? Dear, if you would only be a little more conceited, and believe in yourself so far as to see that you was strong enough to work this change in me, you would perhaps be in a mind to come to me, your poor wife

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening

What are my books but one plea against “man’s inhumanity to man” – to woman – and to the lower animals?

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

You have never loved me as I love you – never – never! Yours is not a passionate heart – your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite – not a woman!

All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.

I’ve had more world championships than you’ve had women!

Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

Women put guys through tests all the time.

In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.

Chico was a small-time hustler and big-time loser who liked to bet the ponies and hit women. He was more successful at the latter.

She had opened doors for other women who might want to follow in her footsteps.

I’ve long maintained that women are born knowing things it takes men a whole lifetime to figure out. This was simply one more case in point.”

Part of what we did is change that misconception that reggaeton is machista and misogynist. On the contrary, women are our biggest fans, and they inspire us.

When I got to be a CEO, I said: ‘Right. I’m now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I’m going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.’

If I’m watching my son play soccer, that’s what I’m doing. If I’m going to a school concert, that’s what I’m doing. I turn the phone off. I actively tune into whatever I’m doing. I walk every evening with one of my sons and for that half an hour, 45 minutes, that’s what I’m doing.

You should choose organisations that are going to be flexible and supportive and recognise people are going through different stages in their careers and actually need different sorts of support.

I took one of my hands in the other, tried to imagine what it would feel like if it was another person’s hand holding mine. There have been times where I felt that I might die of loneliness.

You are my Avis,” he said, “and you are also some one else. You are two women, and therefore you are my harem. At any rate, we are safe now. If the United States becomes too hot for us, why, I have qualified for citizenship in Turkey.

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

No matter what the ladies’ contribution, the Revolution was not fought to prove that all women were created equal.

But it was a moral issue, too, and a number of Northern women felt they had an obligation to fight an institution that broke up families and subjected young women to sexual molestation. Abolition of slavery was different from other reform movements, partly because it drew women so clearly into politics, and partly because it drew them so near to genuine violence.

I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don’t vote for men who yell.

As in Europe, the typical American witch-suspect was a woman, frequently middle-aged with few or no children and a reputation as a difficult personality.

In 1838, Connecticut paid $14.50 a month to male teachers and $5.75 a month to women.

The maximum weekly rate paid for women in domestic service in New England around the time of the Revolution was the same as the maximum daily rate for male farm laborers.

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it’s less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women’s role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?

When I started giving talks about women’s history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, ‘Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.’ It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.

You hear younger women say, ‘I don’t believe I’m a feminist. I believe women should have equal right and I believe in fighting for the rights of other women, but I’m certainly not a feminist. No, no, not that!’ It’s just a word. If you called it ‘Fred’ would it be better?

Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the ’70s of women who were mayors who couldn’t get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids – and sometimes more than half.

In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn’t really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn’t existed before.

Women are needed in the military because there aren’t enough soldiers, and we’re seeing more women serve.

I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that theres so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.

You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.

When the women’s movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the ’60s besides a women’s movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.

When the women’s movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn’t wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.

If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it’s because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things.

Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women’s issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it’s less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women’s role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

The theory that women should only be asked to do work that was safe and relatively mundane was ignored whenever something risky or difficult actually needed to be done.

It took our entire history to actually change the rules of proper female behavior. But those rules were temporarily abandoned whenever the country needed women to do something they weren’t supposed to do.

And the three ladies, as is often the case when women of sense serve tea to men of passion, prevailed.

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

I was pretty excited to meet Cate Blanchett. She’s great, she’s amazing, I think she’s one of the most beautiful women in the universe. And I mean the universe, not the world.

Someone should advise women to stop fantasizing about courageous firefighters and heroic uniformed soldiers. There is a new sheriff in town who epitomizes a progressive definition of masculinity: Apathetic Cowardly Bystander Man.

Women aren’t interested in being sexy any more and men are. All the guys have objectified themselves and sexualised themselves into being just matinee idols.

There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

I like strong women. Strong women characters have always existed in the movies of directors such as K. Balachander and Mani Ratnam

It is not my place to make judgments about the behavior of any other footballer. Cars and women, things like that, have never been important to me. My family, and my belief in God and Jesus are the things which determine my life. I do want to live my life in the right way, and live my life close to God.

We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.

There’s such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don’t want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.

Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it’s about the qualities of the individual in doing that job

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women

A woman brought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.

I think I have always known it, but I didn’t really know there was a name for it, or that it was different, but I have always felt inclined towards women. I have felt inclined towards men – not as deeply or sexually as towards women – but I’m definitely attracted to men.

One of the reasons I wouldn’t sleep with a man is because I wouldn’t feel equal, both in that I feel more spiritually advanced than men, and because society places men over women. How do you feel equal when you’re with a man?

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It’s just a fear of not knowing what women have that’s so powerful. It’s this shield they put up to try to get closer.

I don’t consider my homosexuality a political thing. I consider it a sexual and spiritual thing. I only started going to political rallies to meet women.

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that’s kind of a dead-end road. So I think it’s a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down on students the wrath of the campus thought police – as well as punishments that can extend to suspension or expulsion

By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.

What is it the Bible teaches us? – raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? – to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith

I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself an artificial and undesirable condition based on Oriental influences. Our virile Teutonic ancestors did not think their wives unworthy to follow them into battle, or scorn to dream of winged Valkyries bearing them to Valhalla.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman

Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired, not because they practise a magic inherited from savagery, but simply and solely because they have sense. They see at a glance what most men could not see with searchlights and telescopes…. They are the supreme realists of the race.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

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

No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.

Love is based on a view of women that is impossible to those who have had any experience with them.

Women do not like timid men. Cats do not like prudent rats.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

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

On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.

There are no social differences – till women come in.

Peter Elers, one of the first openly gay vicars in the Church of England, who blessed a lesbian ‘marriage’ in 1976 on the understanding that, if the Church blessed battleships and budgerigars, it ought to find it in its heart to bless men and women in love

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

Right now, I don’t have the same urges as other women when they see a baby. When I see children, I see responsibilities, which I don’t think I’m quite ready for. I feel the same about puppies. They’re cute for a second, but there’s a lot of responsibility involved.

Sometimes it’s not even a role that’s specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it’s something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it’s nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I’m all over it.

I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.

A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That’s the quickest way to be eliminated from my life – try that with me, and you’re out.

A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That’s the quickest way to be eliminated from my life – try that with me, and you’re out.

My wish for the world would be to end violence against women. My wish for myself would be for peace of mind.

Some women just fight to fight. I fight to win.

A lot of women need to know that they don’t have to conform, they don’t have to take no for an answer.

I want women to really feel how honest and vulnerable I am and to understand that they are not alone and that these are all human emotions.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive. It is such a courageous undertaking in countries where there is still considerable stigma about the disease. They got tested to ensure that their unborn babies would have a chance of life by being born free of the virus.

A woman who doesn’t apologize for her very existence on Earth is rare, and that’s what I wanted for myself.

It’s so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn’t happen that easily. It just doesn’t. And so I don’t act up in public and I don’t do anything weird – because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.

It’s not possible that women can be at par with men.

Dont fight even over girlfriends. The country is full of beautiful women. If you cant get one, come to Mugabe for assistance.

The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves – hence, they reinvent the world around them.

I believe women and minorities often wait for permission to be invited to something; we need to stop doing that.

I admire women. I admire their passion, their dedication and their appetite for life.

I admire women. I admire their passion, their dedication and their appetite for life.

God cannot use men and women who live for self. If the truth is to go to all nations, God’s people must make it their life’s work.

There are many whose religion consists in theory. Their lives are not uplifted and ennobled by practicing the truth they profess. Faithful Christian men and women should have a distinguished appearance.

I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans.

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.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

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

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.

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

Listen, son. Most women are damn fools and children. But they’ve got more range then we’ve got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better — and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.

God created men to test the souls of women.

Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I am a naturally buoyant person. I am a naturally energetic person… always have been. I have to say that it’s important for everyone, but especially for women (given our bone density issues) to walk – even ambling for a couple of miles is better than not walking at all.

It is the patient workers, and the active, kindly sympathetic men and women who hold the balance of things secure.

All successful people, men, and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

I’m not for women, frankly, in any job. I don’t want any of them around. Thank God we don’t have any in the Cabinet.

You dear women, I say thanks to you. Thank you for being the kind of people you are and doing the things you do.

People wonder what we do for our women. I’ll tell you what we do. We get out of their way and look with wonder at what they’re accomplishing.

Do the best you can. And remember that the greatest asset you have in this world is those children who you’ve brought into the world, and for whose nurture and care you’re responsible.

When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That’s the price she has to pay.

Anyone who says he can see through a woman is missing a lot.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men — the other 999 follow women.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

If a man speaks badly about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.

If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack. Men hate women who weep.

Women hide their imperfections instead of accepting them as an added charm.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous

You’re only as young as the woman you feel.

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

A woman is an occasional pleasure, but a cigar is always a smoke.

The Bible is a manual for enslavement, for the subjugation of women, for the control of populations, for the genocidal extermination of competing tribes, for the dissolution of the autonomy of the powerful state, for the infiltration of human thought, for the diabolical control of those who wish to be free men and women.

The cure for poverty has a name, in fact: it’s called the empowerment of women. If you give women some control over the rate at which they reproduce, if you give them some say, take them off the animal cycle of reproduction to which nature and some doctrine—religious doctrine condemns them, and then if you throw in a handful of seeds perhaps and some credit, the floor of everything in that village, not just poverty, but education, health, and optimism will increase. It doesn’t matter; try and do it without empowering women, you can’t do it. The benefits are so many.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

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.

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God’s own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

[On his mother] You have to admire the loyalty of a woman who puts her children first. And that’s where I get my determination from. From her, without a doubt.

For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

When the candles are out all women are fair.

We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due, in the long run, to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

It reminds us of the potential in our societies that is yet to be fully unlocked, and it encourages us to find ways to allow all girls and women to play their full part.

I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It’s unfair. If a man looks solemn, it’s automatically assumed he’s a serious person, not a miserable one.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the harsh progress of mankind.

The prime truth of woman, the universal mother…that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.