Barack Obama

There’s no doubt I’m a better man having spent time with Michelle. I would never say that Michelle’s a better woman, but I will say she’s a little more patient.

[living at the White House] This isn’t about us. There’s so much history here that no one family can claim this space as their own.

… because in the United States of America, no one should go broke because they chose to go to college.

Michelle’s like Beyoncé in that song ‘Let me upgrade ya!’ She upgraded me.

What Michelle has done is to remind me every day of the virtues of order.

[on Michelle] A dedicated mom, a good friend, and someone who’s not afraid to poke a little fun at herself from time to time

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

The woman who doesn’t require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet.

You can’t whisper magical thoughts in your daughter’s ear and go into a workplace where you tolerate [this] existence. If you are tolerating that, that’s the workplace that will be waiting for your little girl, and you have sold her a bill of goods.

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

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

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

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

I love to challenge the status quo. That’s been my mission from day one as an actress and an early feminist wanting equality and wanting to push the limits of what’s possible.

Being a feminist is being equal to what a man do

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

First of all, as a card-carrying feminist, I am a BIG feminist, anytime I see women being stars – the stars that they should be, and being featured, and being highlighted, it makes my heart happy. Because it’s long overdue.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

I’ve come into loving and understanding the feminine side of me. How powerful a woman and her femininity is… how strong, how graceful, how gorgeous, how beautiful. I love getting to know the many sides of myself. I embrace them all.

I do respect them; I have great respect for women. In fact, one of the reasons ‘The Apprentice’ was such a successful show for so many years, the audience of women was fantastic.

I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be.