To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

Then I read Little Women and of course like a lot of really young girls I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights but they are not the same.

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.

Like all sciences and all valuations the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

I love women's fashion but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have nothing to wear.

The use of the atomic bomb with its indiscriminate killing of women and children revolts my soul.

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends and my own best friends' mothers and from surrogates many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life even after their passing.

You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally but they must never fail.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation those of women by a parity of reasoning will not shrink from the same test.

Children I grant should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men or women it is but a civil term for weakness.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn herself grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.