Quotes on Women

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

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.

Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as if they do not believe that democracy means the country belongs to them. But it's true.

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no discrimination in our country whatsoever. This is most important in the schools of our country.

A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.

If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about deducing what the people want. Democracy is leading the people as well.

Full democracy requires the full participation of women. Your voices are vital. The word 'vital' means necessary for life. A democracy, to be fully alive, must include all its citizens.

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at the margin. What it is to have no home in this place. To be set adrift from the one you knew. What it is to live at the edge of towns that cannot bear your company.