Ryan Gosling

It’s misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman’s sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than one film.

And to all of the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.

Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.

If we want our daughters to dream bigger than we did we still have work to do.

We can never be complacent and think that we’ve arrived now as women. Because I hear this from young women. Some of you young women who aren’t feeling the pains that many of our predecessors have felt – you think, well, there aren’t any problems, women’s rights, we’ve got this all figured out, I’m already equal, I’m good – I’m just like, oh, just you wait, you’ll feel it. So the work continues.

[on her mother] she’s a very smart, independent woman who was kind of coming into her own in the feminist movement of the 70s and 80s

It is very important that women of this country be made aware of the dangers of osteoporosis in the sense that it is a silent and invisible disease with no symptoms whatsoever.

I will be phenomenal to the women. I mean, I want to help women.

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

Until we’re in those rooms as equally as men are, it can’t shift.

Women are not a special interest group. They are half of this country and they are perfectly capable of making their own choices about their health.

I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can’t control their bodies.

A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink.

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.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.