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"The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

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

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"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"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"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"

Hans Kung, Theologian

"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"

John McGahern, Writer

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

Mary Astell, Writer

"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"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"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"

George W. Bush, President

"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Women may fall when there's no strength in men"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women"

Voltaire, Writer

"Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors"

Voltaire, Writer

"I hate women because they always know where things are"

Voltaire, Writer

"The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time"

John Barrymore, Actor

"Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"Grace in women has more effect than beauty"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Women are nothing but machines for producing children"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain"

Osama bin Laden, Criminal

"Women have this obsession with shoes"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength"

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

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