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The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.

If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.

For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

Men in high heels? That's a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous.

It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!

High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There's a real power in heels and a good dress.