Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. - Mary Wollstonecraft
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men. - John Calvin
First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women. - Margaret Cavendish
The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians. - Lynn Westmoreland
Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests. - Jenny Shipley
I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends. - Naomi Watts
I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?' - Martha Plimpton
Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women. - Anna H. Shaw
A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality. - Marisa Tomei
Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls. - Louise Brown
A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed. - Barbara Smith
Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants. - Carol P. Christ