Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has had on the black family and black children.
I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.
Believe me, I recognize the cultural and anatomical challenges and respect the sacrifices women make in order to balance family and a career, or family with no career, or career with no family.
And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.
It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
The older I get, and the more collections I do, the more I'm driven by real style and beauty. My aim is to reveal and not to display women.
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
I have always wondered why more women did not look into owning their own funds. Granted, it is a high stress, high risk business, but it also offers high rewards and control.
Women are often meeker in meetings and afraid to ask for raises and promotions. I've told countless female colleagues to stop apologizing when they ask for more. It's not personal, it's business.
Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
I think the idea that women can stand up and be strong and still be seen as beautiful and sexual is kind of cool, and I would like to see more of that.
As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.
One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.
