Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife.
In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are being treated as collateral damage as the big boys discuss geopolitical goals.
We've heard a lot in recent polemic about how to win the fight for the corner office. But pushing up against a glass ceiling is practically a luxury when you consider the millions of women who can feel the floor dropping beneath their feet.
I feel more comfortable doing films with groups of guys. It's a lot easier for me. There's a difference with women: you can't take them to dinner every night and go crazy.
When I think about fashion I think women will never lose that appetite for fashion.
I think women want to look beautiful. I think that's an important thing. It is relevant.
It's very passe to think women want to spend a fortune on clothes.
Each job I had wasn't necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how you really have to take certain things from each job and learn from that and then move on to something you really want to do.
I wanted to help women and their families.
Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.
Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?
I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.
I'm obsessed with making women look and feel more beautiful than they ever thought possible.
It is important for women to feel beautiful when she looks in the mirror, and I tell women, 'If you don't feel beautiful, find one thing that you can look in that mirror and say, 'That is beautiful.'
I get so much mail from young women saying that they are so insecure when they look at me, but they don't realize all of the flaws that I have.
I know some women are intimidated by makeup.
The fire to inspire women and help them to blaze new paths fiercely burns inside of me.
I did an episode on my talk show on cellulite, and I brought seven women into a dressing room at Nordstrom's in L.A., and we all sat and talked about our cellulite.
Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.
Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
