The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ. Pope Benedict XVI on women
I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?' Marianne Williamson on women
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? Jackie Kennedy on women
I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it. Shirley MacLaine on women
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it. Sojourner Truth on women
I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine. James Hetfield on women
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. Susan B. Anthony on women
If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women. Jack Nicholson on women
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. Virginia Woolf on women
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. Virginia Woolf on women
Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us. Andrea Dworkin on women
I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame. Ellen DeGeneres on women
Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m. Ellen DeGeneres on women
I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay. Bette Davis on women
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public. Albert Ellis on women
There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world. Steve Martin on women
A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. Ani DiFranco on women
The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men. A. N. Wilson on women
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans fools and women will take a little longer. Spiro T. Agnew on women
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. Abigail Adams on women