It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
Astaire never thought of what he was doing as balletic, but Kelly was always trying to dance with women on points. And his choreography is so showy and flashy. He always looks self-satisfied to me.
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want to do.
Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.
I don't look like most women in the industry.
All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security.
I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.
As I've always said, 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' I'm much better with women than I am being tough in a bar!
In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.
I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.
Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.
We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.
My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.
My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.
For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.
There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.
By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.
We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.
Women play into each other's weaknesses.
