Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.

If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.

Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist -- Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.

Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.

During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?

We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.

During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

I joined NOW on an issue of pay.

May all men experience the glorious presence of the Creator.

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.

The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable.

The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

I have existed before Abraham was born.

The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.

As soon as everyone is on the bandwagon with one idea, a leader should be working on the next one.