"Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness"

"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea"

"Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies"

"If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies"

"Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion"

"Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?"

"The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects"

"At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil"

"Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space"

"Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached"

"I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock"