Louisa May Alcott Quotes

The result of coeducation shows clearly that there is no mental inferiority on the part of girls.

When I was a kid, I was always around boys. I was always trying to keep up with boys - skateboarding and snowboarding. If my brother was mowing the lawn, I had to mow the lawn. If my brother was using a hammer, I needed to use a hammer. I've always been a little bit of a feminist.

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

I'm almost a feminist and believe if a girl wants to do something, she should be able to do it in the same way that a man is able to, which is sometimes a problem in our country.

My coach never looked at me as a female fighter, but just as a fighter, as someone he was training. I had to work just as hard as the guys, or harder than them.

I didn't want to be good for a girl: I wanted to be as good, if not better than, all the guys.

I agree that at the end of the day, it's a man's world, but when I'm doing a film, I am working with the director, not a man or a woman.

When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

You know, I've always considered women to be people.

Marriage is made out to be so important for girls but the focus has to shift at some point from marriage to the real challenges of life which are the same for women and men, so we have to prepare our girls just the way we prepare our boys.

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.

Being the only female in what was basically a boys’ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn’t compensate by becoming hard or quarrelsome. She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who lay in bed and ate chocolates, a girl whose hair smelled like hyacinth and whose scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze. But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature one would have her seem.

I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.

As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.

The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.