Daily Quote: Dawn Fraser voted Australia's greatest sportswoman of all time

"We know our economy is stronger when our wives, mothers, and daughters can live their lives free from discrimination in the workplace, and free from the fear of domestic violence.

Today, the Senate passed the Violence Against Women Act that Joe Biden originally wrote almost 20 years ago. I urge the House to do the same.

And I ask this Congress to declare that women should earn a living equal to their efforts, and finally pass the Paycheck Fairness Act this year."

-President Obama delivers his 2013 State of the Union address to Congress
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President Obama: Women should earn a living equal to their efforts

"I started not wanting to miss instead of making winners. It probably was a big of choke. Obviously, it's hard to take when you get yourself in a winning position and lose five games straight."

"It's hard. No matter where you're playing. You always want to play your best. I haven't been playing my best. I desperately want to get to that point."

-Sam Stosur after losing the match 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 to China's Jie Zheng

Sam Stosur honest in her Australian Open exit

"As an Aboriginal woman I have seen and I've been around the ropes long and hard enough to know that Aboriginal people have been disappointed with government for a long time, hence the intervention,"

"I was in the midst of that and I saw firsthand that you can have policies but if you don't have the right people implementing it, it's never going to work."

-Nova Peris

Nova Peris a 'Captain's Pick' as Labor's first female Indigenous MP

"I grew up with brothers; I grew up in a man's world, and you had to elbow your way in."

Women are often handed the top jobs in situations where an organisation is “a basket case, a lost cause - and they turn it around,”

Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Head of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde said she had experienced “my lot of discrimination”.

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Christine Lagarde: Women make better team players

"You know, the girls, they are more unstable emotionally than us. I'm sure everybody will say it's true, even the girls (laughter). No? No, you don't think?"

“But, I mean, it’s just about hormones and all this stuff. We don’t have all these bad things, so we are physically in a good shape every time, and you are not. That’s it.”

French tennis player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga attempts to provide a behavioural analysis on the difference between male and female tennis players.

Jo Tsonga Women tennis players 'emotionally unstable'

“I thought I still had a lot of money in those days. I worked hard for a very long time and earned a lot of money."

Former Woman’s Day and Australian Women’s Weekly editor Nene King giving evidence in a case against a former friend she alleges stole more than $223,000 from her.

Nene KIng

“Women [in politics] sometimes do get a rougher trot that’s true. But there’s no way out of that. You’ve just got to grin and get through it and keep setting the example that you’re not going to be deflected by the kind of insults that might come your way – because that’s all someone’s trying to do, upset you and derail you.”

Former Liberal Senator and Howard government minister Amanda Vanstone on Q&A last night.

Amanda Vanstone: Women need to 'grin and get through it'

Diane Keaton receives Sherry Lansing Leadership Award

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"Women can't have it all. They can have plenty of choices, but at the end of the day, they choose something which means they can't have something else.

The point I am making today is women have many, many choices but as you make one choice, that may rule out something else. It was a commentary on the challenges that face women."

- Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop explains comments she made stating that women "can't have it all"

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Julie Bishop says women 'can't have it all'

"And it’s a Congress with no Allen West. No Joe Walsh. No Todd Akin!"

Stephanie Schriock, president of Emily's List celebrates the pro-choice women elected to Congress at Emily's List Inauguration Brunch.

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Emily's List President celebrates pro-choice victories in Congress

"Our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers, and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts.

Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law — for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. "

- Barack Obama delivering his Inauguration speech, sets important goals in achieving "equality for all"


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Obama urges American to take collective action

“What an exciting special guest. That was Hillary Clinton’s husband!”

- Co-host Amy Poehler introduces Bill Clinton at the 2013 Golden Globes

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Amy Poehler introduces 'Bill Rodham Clinton'

“To be sitting here is an unbelievable feeling and to have done it in the same year we won the Twenty20 Cup I think it’s really special, It’s a great piece of history for Australian women’s cricket and we’re very proud of that.”

The Southern Stars team captain Jodie Fields said after the team collected their second major international tournament victory in the past four months, and their sixth World Cup victory.

Aussie women's cricket team claim World Cup victory