“The woman’s mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.”

“Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.”

“The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.”

“No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.”

“I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.”

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”

“I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!”

“I don’t mind living in a man’s world, as long as I can be a woman in it.”

“A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.”

“One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.”

“I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.”

“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”

Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora--bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves. Nora: But hundreds of thousands of women have done!

I'm also like a half-drowned woman on a wreck. No one to suffer with; no one to care for.

But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves." "It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.

“I hate women because they always know where things are.”

“All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.”

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

A woman can only become a man’s friend in three stages: first she’s an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress and only after that a friend.

A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.

I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

“They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word undone. These women could be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose. ”

“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”