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It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.

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

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

There are so many successful women working in intelligence, but it's still seen as a male-dominated world.