That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather when women are empowered when they can speak from the experience of their own lives they often address different previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.

Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain its impressions are certain and dependable they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

Obviously my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

Women have talent and intelligence but due to social constraints and prejudices it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men who until recently couldn't get pregnant.

As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers all with plenty of children gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.