You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.