Audrey MacLean Quotes

I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.

I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.

I believe education is the great equalizer.

Women absolutely deserve respect.

My IQ for the game is very high. I think that will help me out a lot.

Women should not let anybody take them for a ride. If they face such things, they should talk about it.

Education gives girls the knowledge, experience, and confidence to play their rightful role in society.

I think education is something that is very important no matter what you are doing. It makes you feel secure, independent, and helps you build confidence in yourself. It grooms your whole personality. So if it starts from the basic level; if the basic education that a girl and a boy receive is the same, I think a lot will change.

There's no right way to be a woman; there's only a right way to be a human, which is to have respect for others.

A woman should be allowed to be whoever and whatever she wants to be and she should be respected for that.

There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate.

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

I believe in gender equality and I love that I can represent strong modern-day women.

There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being.

True badassery has no gender.

I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could... That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.

Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return.

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.

We have to teach our boys the rules of equality and respect, so that as they grow up gender equality becomes a natural way of life. And we have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

I feel bad that people think that "feminism" is a dirty word. I don't understand that at all, I'm proud to be labeled a feminist. I consider myself a person who has throughout my entire life stood up for myself. It's never been my ambition to be someone who takes a backseat to anything. I'm not a male basher at all. I divide people into assholes and non-assholes, and that's genderless. I encounter sexism everyday.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.