The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
~ Roseanne Barr

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
~ Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler

I am woman! I am invincible! I am pooped!
~ Author Unknown

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me na?ve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
~ Ana?s Nin

Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.
~ Author Unknown

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
~ Timothy Leary

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
~ Alanis Morissette, quoted in Reader's Digest, March 2000

I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
~ Madonna Ciccone

I was told that whistling wasn't ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy.
~ Anonymous, quoted in Kindling the Spirit by Lois P. Frankel