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Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women. -- Gloria Steinem
Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved. -- Gloria Steinem
It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that means controlling women. So we got into this masculine/feminine, dominant/passive paradigm, and it's going to take a while to get out. -- Gloria Steinem
We must... guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions. -- Henry W. Kendall
I want to encourage women to take control of their health. -- Laila Ali
Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that. -- Monica Seles
Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now. It's out of control. -- Brian Kilmeade
Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. -- Naomi Wolf
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. -- Groucho Marx
Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film. -- Richard LaGravenese
Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances. -- Maria Bartiromo
The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion. -- Robin Morgan
It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control. -- Martha Plimpton
For Democrats to reduce women to beggars for cheap government-funded birth control is demeaning to the women that I know who are far more complicated than their libido and the management of their reproductive system. -- Mike Huckabee
Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care. -- Augustus Y. Napier
My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives. -- Reese Witherspoon
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible. -- Jose Marti
Forties are good! I'm thinking with my brain now, which is a lot more clear, and women seem to appreciate that. It's a wonderful decade where you're in control of yourself but the women are still interested. -- James Marsters
I think for women especially, writing and creating your own role, producing, directing - having some control over what you do is really important. We can pave the way for other women to send what messages they want sent. -- Nikki Reed
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years. -- Taslima Nasrin
It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense. -- Gwen Moore
As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes. -- Dee Dee Myers
Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup. -- Azar Nafisi
Negotiations are about controlling things, about being in the driver's seat and make one tiny mistake; you're dead. I made one tiny mistake, I wore women's clothes -- Michael Scott
Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are in a controlling situation in duality. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day. -- Oscar de la Renta

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