Maureen Chiquet Quotes

I certainly came up in an era where women were really making strides and making a point to beat down doors and find their place and crash through the glass ceiling.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History

I think of young Chinese women today as being incredibly modern and are taking a lot from Western style and tailoring.

Chanel took women out of corsets and put them into the 'simple little black dress,' the perfectly tailored suit, the bell-bottom sailor pants, and jersey tops.

I wanted to be a female like Chyna, who broke boundaries and did things that were really special.

We showed record companies that they shouldn't be scared just because it's an all-girl band. We could play just as well as the boys.

It was interesting to portray a character that was so far removed from today's world, but was also at the forefront of feminism at that time.

If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

When I grew up, it was a time when women were just supposed to be cute and not have many opinions. My mother and her friends were quite different. They were all the most beautiful women you've ever seen ... and they were very strong women.

With unisex fashion, you know, females were doing it first. You're the reason we have unisex clothing. It's because girls said, "Wait, I can wear jeans, too! I can wear a suit, too."

Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself an artificial and undesirable condition based on Oriental influences. Our virile Teutonic ancestors did not think their wives unworthy to follow them into battle, or scorn to dream of winged Valkyries bearing them to Valhalla.

I believe 2016 is the Year of the Woman and now more than ever, it is our time to accomplish anything and everything.

Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware of, but that's just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history - empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves.

Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future. A just government, a humane religion, a pure social life await her coming.

Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.

You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!

Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman's garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than this. The idea that she owes service to a man instead of to herself, and that it is her highest duty to aid his development rather than her own, will be the last to die.

Coco Chanel really wanted to have freedom of a man, and at first the only way she could find that freedom was through the clothes. They freed her movement; she got rid of the corset. This imposed her not as a decoration but as a real personality. She invented a new way of seductions through these clothes.

To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who does not recognize some duty besides those incident to her own blood relationship.

Friday's a free day. A woman's day.

I was very, very pro-women many years ago.

Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.

The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.