“ In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, e… Ava DuVernay
“ I'm excited to see the growth in women's cycling, and I think the Women's Tour has had a really positive impact on that change. Lizzie Armitstead
“ Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances. Maria Bartiromo
“ Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. Zaha Hadid
“ If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and e… Tom Cotton
“ We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men. Pim Fortuyn
“ We have been sold a Muslim boogeyman. We are buying into it, and we are terrified, and that terror is causing people to lash out at comedians like myself or women wearing hijabs, or anyone who seems t… Maysoon Zayid
“ I think the problem is, exceptional women will always succeed. But there are plenty of less-exceptional men who succeed. Until we get the less-exceptional women succeeding equally, we do not have full… Cherie Blair
“ My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women. Chris Evans
“ The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when wo… Ellen Key
“ All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength. Diane von Furstenberg
“ Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic n… Mikhail Gorbachev
“ I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.' Vicki Lawrence
“ The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman. Dalai Lama
“ I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women. Robert B. Parker
“ Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain therefore to treat them as if they were equal. James Froude
