“I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock-full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.”

“I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.”

Terry Goodkind (1948) American novelist

“It's an exciting time to be a woman. When I was a kid the "power of women" or "women power" was a phrase that seemed to carry on it a call of action. I dream of what could be in the future. The women that I grew up around they they seem to feel their power but they also seem to shy away from the full expression of it, or they expressed in unthreatening ways that were not disruptive. When I was a young women in Hollywood if you were a woman focused on building your career you were labeled "ambitious", and it was a bad word. So I was decidedly not. And adopted a kind of an, 'Ooh, how did this happen to me?'”

Gwyneth Paltrow (1972) American actress, singer, and food writer

“The champions of militant Islam are, of course, misogynists, woman-haters; they are also misologists — haters of reason. Their armed doctrine is little more than a chaotic penal code underscored by impotent dreams of genocide. And, like all religions, it is a massive agglutination of stock response, of cliches, of inherited and unexamined formulations.”

Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist

“Always remember... Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.”

Ziad K Abdelnour (1960) Lebanese-born American investment banker, financier, activist and author

“Haters are only distractions from your greater purpose. When you achieve your goals and success is no longer out of your comfort zone, not only will the haters be forgotten, but they will assuredly be looked upon as the prodigious fools that they are….”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

“I don't call every woman a woman, whether you like it or not... There's only one thing that makes a woman beautiful and that's haya (modesty) and wafa (loyalty). If you don't have those, I call you non-women.”

Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar (1961) Pakistani writer

“(Woman on television) Frank, Frank, make me feel like a woman. (Man on television) Could you pick up my laundry?”

Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist

“A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.”

Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer

“Is God a man or a woman?
God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.”

Sherman Alexie book Reservation Blues