Bears Quote by Betty Friedan

[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten…

— Gail Collins

Women's role in the household has changed since the women's movement. I don't know if women's role outside the household has changed. I mean,…

— Margaret Hoover

“Women’s role in the development of trade unions has been significant and yet underrecognised.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

I was brought up to be uncompromisingly bloody-minded by my mother. She equipped me, without knowing it, to be someone who is creative rather…

— Viv Albertine

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I…

— Katharine Hepburn

“The idea of women having sex without risking pregnancy is deeply disturbing to the vision of women's role that Western civilization has inherited from…

— Jack Holland

I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.

— Indira Gandhi

So Carol, you're a housewife and mother. And have you got any children?

— Michael Barrymore

“When Pat Schroeder, a Harvard Law graduate, ran for office in 1972, the headlines read "Housewife" or "Mother" runs for Congress. When facing one…

— Myra MacPherson

I think obviously the media need to help promote the game and make it bigger so the younger girls have women role models to…

— Karen Carney

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

— Chelsea Clinton

People thought I was trying to say that women had no say, no rights. I was not saying that. I was saying that women…

— Fela Kuti

I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the…

— Claire McCaskill

“Women have a role to play in global development.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha