"So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove"

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent"

"Women are responsible for creating their own roles"

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his"

"They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men"

"Americans like fat books and thin women"

"The only really happy folk are married women and single men"

"I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women"

"Women are nothing but machines for producing children"

"America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children"

"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"