If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.

I didn't really realise that I was going to have more obstacles because I was a woman. It was never something that I thought about.

If you're a woman and you're working, you're already set up for conflict.

There are schoolteachers around the country that work second jobs after their teaching duties are done: one woman in North Dakota I spoke to was heading off to clean houses after the final bell in order to pay her rent.

I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.

As a mother, you're only allowed to talk about the 'good' moments - not the ones when you've had enough and want to be on your own. Or just want to be a woman, not a mother.

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.

I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.

Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch.

I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

I bring something to the table as a woman; I bring something to the table as a woman of color.

What Kirk wanted every evening was to go to bed with a beautiful woman. Our captain now is a man of infinitely more skill. A better man.

In a way, a man's body is more beautiful than a woman's.

If someone was having some surgery that was going to put them out for three months, it's something you should consider, with a man or a woman. What is the impact of having the C.E.O. or visionary out for three months?

In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.

If you're a woman and you're working, you're already set up for conflict.

There are schoolteachers around the country that work second jobs after their teaching duties are done: one woman in North Dakota I spoke to was heading off to clean houses after the final bell in order to pay her rent.