“ It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. Camille Paglia
“ Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots… Crystal Eastman
“ I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century. Hillary Clinton
“ In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. Alanis Morissette
“ Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you. John Cusack
“ How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman... Daphne du Maurier
“ Write your own part. It's the only way I've ever gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to… Mindy Kaling
“ Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs? Carol Shields
“ When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover. Thomas Hardy
“ Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please Anne Bronte
“ Two women at the same event wearing the same outfit is a disaster. But two women at the same event singing the same song is a party. And two women at the same event talking about Doris from Fame is a… Caitlin Moran
“ Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel… Virginia Woolf
“ She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. Jane Austen
“ Rubens! All bosom and bum, big cumulus clouds of pink flesh, eh? You can feel the heart beating like a kettledrum in a ton of that stuff. Every woman a bed; throw yourself on them, sink from sight. Ray Bradbury
“ Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm. Robert Jordan
“ LADY BRACKNELLThirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an i… Oscar Wilde
“ I’m not jealous of my male colleagues often, but I am when it comes to how they can just shower, shave, put on a suit, and be ready to go. The few times I’ve gone out in public without makeup, it’s ma… Hillary Rodham Clinton
“ It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that th… Fannie Flagg
