"What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother"

"The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings"

"When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome"

"For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child"

"Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father"

"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"

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

"There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman"

"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"