Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul. Coretta Scott King on women
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. Jean-Jacques Rousseau on women
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love. Edvard Munch on women
I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women. Annie Lennox on women
Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there. Jennifer Aniston on women
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again. David Herbert Lawrence on women
Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed. Isabel Allende on women
Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children. Donald Rumsfeld on women
For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited. Sheryl Sandberg on women
Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire? Rita Rudner on women
Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie. Rita Rudner on women
Women lie about their age men lie about their income. William Feather on women
The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth. Anne Lamott on women
It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control. Camryn Manheim on women
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. Fay Weldon on women
I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that. Adele on women
I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too. Ann Romney on women
Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. Charlotte Whitton on women