Amy Poehler

When your children arrive, your heart becomes a room with wide open windows.

Women talk about stuff on the way to the valet that it takes men 10 years to admit to each other. The depth at which women talk to and about each other is invaluable to me. With your really, really close good friends you do that fast.

[at the 2013 Golden Globe Awards] Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu and I hear she’s amazing in it.

[on her mother] she’s a very smart, independent woman who was kind of coming into her own in the feminist movement of the 70s and 80s

No one looks stupid when they’re having fun!

You know, as a comedian your body has to be – I need to think of a better term than ‘up for grabs’ – but you kind of use whatever you have to get the laugh. And if you’re worrying about how you look… Vanity is the death of comedy.

Our first job in life as women, I think, is to get to know ourselves. And I think a lot of times we don’t do that. We spend our time pleasing, satisfying, looking out into the world to define who we are – listening to the messages, the images, the limited definitions that people have of who we are.

Until we’re in those rooms as equally as men are, it can’t shift.

No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half its citizens.

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

I am not a woman, so I don’t have bad days.

To all my goddesses in the world spreading love and light, power and radiance. Never stop being brilliant!!

The women that inspire me, to be honest, are the women that struggle.

You’’re a feminist if you go to a Jay-Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’’re NOT like, ‘mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should be making 23 percent less money than Jay-Z.’

Being a feminist is being equal to what a man do

Women feel more guilt than men, not because of some weird chromosomal issue but because they have a history of being blamed for other people’s behavior. You get hit, you must have annoyed someone; you get raped, you must have excited someone; your kid is a junkie, you must have brought them up wrong.

I wish that girls could fail as bad as men do and be okay.

We are a gorgeous, infinite circle of women all shades, all styles, in all the ways we were made. Inside of us everything blooms.

The difference between a broken community and a thriving one is the presence of women who are valued.

If we want our daughters to dream bigger than we did we still have work to do.

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