While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.
Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.
The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.
Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.
Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.
I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.
As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.
No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.
Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.
Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.
I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?
I think we need to have more women in the Republican Party talking about what it is we're trying to do for families.
I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.
Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.
Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.
Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.