Desmond Tutu

If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is women.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.

You can’t whisper magical thoughts in your daughter’s ear and go into a workplace where you tolerate [this] existence. If you are tolerating that, that’s the workplace that will be waiting for your little girl, and you have sold her a bill of goods.

I’m trying to do my part as a citizen. My part as a Hispanic. My part as a woman. As an American. I enjoy it. I think everybody should be civically engaged in a level that will affect policy. That’s the point. That how our government is set up.

I actually trust the women I know. I trust them with their choices, I trust them with their bodies and I trust them with their children. I trust that they are decent enough and wise enough and worthy enough to carry the right of abortion.

[Feminism] means that you believe in the equality of the sexes in every way.

If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is women.

Sometimes, I want some damn makeup, and I’m going to wear it! Guess what — if I want to wear red lipstick and put eyelashes on, I can do whatever I f**king want. I am the creator of my own destiny,

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove they are worthy of a woman’s attention.

I’m definitely a feminist. I’m f*cking disgusted by the way women are still treated.

All men should be feminists. If men care about women’s rights, the world will be a better place.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

I feel like it’s by design that I’m raising boys, like there’s a reason. I don’t like my sons watching Snow White. It’s totally misogynistic

The first thing about empowerment is to understand that you have the right to be involved. The second one is that you have something important to contribute. And the third piece is that you have to take the risk to contribute it.

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

The women that inspire me, to be honest, are the women that struggle.