Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.

There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black — in itself.

We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel." Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor.

The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?

... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what shaped them.

Moving from phonetics to etymology, ‘vagina’ originates from a word meaning sheath for a sword. Ain’t got no vagina.

This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.

And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.

All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

Islam affords women their rightful status, and encourages them to work in all sectors, as long as they are afforded appropriate respect.