Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod.

Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world-a questioning of power/domination issues, an affirmation of women's energy.

The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.

Each day gives the opportunity for you to be treated right, to feel worthy, and to be successful. It’s a choice you have to make, a faith you have to embrace, and a standard you have to set.

It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!

It’s nice to have a station pet. Wish it wasn’t trapped in a hovering prison in the men’s bathroom, but listen: no pet is perfect. It becomes perfect when you learn to accept it for what it is.

In every man there is something of all men.

Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.

I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.