Jimmy Carter

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation on earth.

I was subscribing to this sick identity. … Stay in your place, be feminine, be a lady, don’t make too much noise.

I think it’s a wonderful time for a woman.

I have tremendous respect for women.

Number one, I have great respect for women. I was the one that really broke the glass ceiling on behalf of women, more than anybody in the construction industry.

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

I have a little sister and I’m constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything – and especially in comedy. Their anatomy seems to be the only defining aspect of their character, and I just find that untruthful and it straight up offends me.

[Feminism] means that you believe in the equality of the sexes in every way.

There’s something so special about a woman who dominates in a man’s world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer.

I’m trying to do my part as a citizen. My part as a Hispanic. My part as a woman. As an American. I enjoy it. I think everybody should be civically engaged in a level that will affect policy. That’s the point. That how our government is set up.

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

I never identified with the feminist movement in a strong way. I just kind of lived it. I didn’t politicize it. I didn’t follow any written rules to what it meant to be a feminist. I had my own sense of what was right and wrong.

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

As for my girls, I’ll raise them to think they breathe fire.

Have you watched Snow White lately? I get real funky about the classics; I don’t like (my sons) watching it. It’s totally sexist, misogynistic – she’s cleaning for seven dwarfs. There’s nothing wrong with a woman who chooses to stay at home with her family, it’s a hard-ass job, but it’s the way it’s spoken about.

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