We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

All of the men on my staff can type.

A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.

As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.

I am not a centrist.

I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.

We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.

We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.

When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry lipstick. Those days are over.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

Are you looking for gold friend Look around you anything useful to you is pure gold pure silver

To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

The only thing thats the end of the world is the end of the world.

May the wind be always at your back.

Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important.

A great difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life each day in May.

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Love is the subtlest force in the world.

It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.

Everybody has something they love to do. Do that thing.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

You see a lot of UFOs with closed eyes and opened mind.

Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.

Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

Taking notes at a pub in Salisbury, I was mistaken for a health inspector!

There's nothing like the energy in a small comedy club room or a small theater when it's going really well. I can see everybody's face practically in the whole room. There's no cameras in the way, and it's just me.