Checks Quote by Christina Ricci

The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan, and if people think I am strange, they…

— David Icke

I love the idea of ordinary women making extraordinary sacrifices.

— Megan Chance

I'm not surprised about the lack of women on boardrooms. They were only emancipated 200 years ago, and historically, men have dominated. I welcome…

— David Tang

In everything I do, I like to set the idea for girls that they can do anything. I was really moved by Hillary Clinton's…

— Miranda Otto

The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of…

— Nancy Astor

So many women have had to make these sacrifices - putting off having kids, letting their husbands down - for some career opportunity. Mine…

— Amy Chozick

One cannot deny the great role women have played in the world community. My flight was yet another impetus to continue this female contribution.

— Valentina Tereshkova

“At first glance, the stewardess appears to have been a reflection of conservative postwar gender roles—an impeccable airborne incarnation of the mythical homemaker of…

— Victoria Vantoch

I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who…

— Barbara Neely

I was thrilled when I heard about the Time's Up campaign's legal defense fund for women who've experienced harassment and sexism. I'd been longing…

— Connie Britton

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished.…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

But the BBC has made a big push to get women historians such as Amanda Vickery, Mary Beard and Bettany Hughes on TV and…

— Lucy Worsley