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

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

“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.”

“I've spent a lifetime in challenge. There's no way in which you can create any meaningful change unless you do that.”

“When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.”

“When I went to represent my law firm anywhere—I was a young kid just out of college—I said, How do you do? I'm Bella Abzug from the law firm of such and such, and people would say, Yes, fine, fine,...”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”