I consider myself incredibly lucky to live and work in places like Canada and the U.S. where polio no longer threatens to rob the livelihoods of innocent children. As a young woman, I stand behind the women around the globe who are leading the charge against polio and working relentlessly to achieve a polio-free world.
The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities.
I have no desire to go through the emancipation of women and homosexuals all over again.
We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.
It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
We need to stop objectifying our women in what we call our second religion... Our films. And our TV shows.
I think women are really good at multitasking. Men just cannot do it.
I love rock women.
Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run.
So we want to free the women of America? You know what would free the women of America? Make men accept responsibility for birth control.
I love real women that don't have to be saints, who can be selfish and act out against their parents or like the wrong guy, because that's life. That's my life, at least.
What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?
Anything I have blown a lot of money on? Well, I have three daughters and a wife - that's four women, and I'm working on a sitcom, so you could say that I am just trying to stay alive!
Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.
We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.
Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
I'm very optimistic about the future, because... Okay, with Audra McDonald, even just on Broadway, they cast her in shows that are usually not played by African-American women, so she's very inspiring to me just because of that, you know what I mean?
I think women are very complicated human beings, and I think there's an oversimplification of women when you see them on screen.
In 220 years of American presidential politics, there had been no serious female major party contenders, though women had been campaigning for the presidency since before they could vote, starting with Victoria Woodhull in 1872 and Belva Lockwood in 1884.
It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.
For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.
For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.
I love funny women. I love writing funny women characters.
South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.
What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.
It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.
One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst.
The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.
Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.
