The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.
Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.
I met a woman who told me that she wasn't attracted to Asians. "No worries," I said. "I'm not attracted to racists
I met a woman who told me she wasn't attracted to Asians. No worries, I said. I'm not attracted to racists.
My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.
The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.
Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.
I used to say in interviews that I don't necessarily want to be the first black woman or first model to do certain things; I just want to see it done.
What did I know of loving anything, beyond a longing, beyond being biased in one woman's direction.
A woman will feel emotionally secure when you can listen to her stories. Then she will learn to love you.
As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me.
Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
To understand a woman, a man had to peel away layer after layer of words, much as one must peel away an onion to get at the desired part.
It's a big pay off when I see a woman wearing my stuff. It's really gratifying.
I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children.
I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
I'm very comfortable being married to an extremely strong, opinionated, and driven woman. But I also sit at the head of the table. I have both of those sides to me.
I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll see the results.
