“The Glamour woman of the year sees what they have to do and just go do that. When they want to do work they just go do that like Jane Goodall, when they want to accept the CEO job at Yahoo and announce their pregnancy in the same day like Marissa [Mayer] herself did this summer, they just go do that, and when ordinary citizens see a thousand ways to help each other through the worst natural disaster in East Coast history, they just...

“Where I grew up in Pakistan, it's really the luck of the draw. My mother got married when she was 17. She never went to college but she wanted each and every one of us to go to college and then work. She was relentless about it. And i think that part of who i am is shaped by her strength. If [girls] families support them, they can achieve their dreams” – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“It’s not the we women need to rule the world, it’s that nature made us to do side by side.” – Lauren Hutton

“To all of you girls, while you may see a polished girl with a fancy title, my start was not polished or fancy. I was an assistant to an assistant and I sat in the hallway. I think that if you are doing what you love during the day, you just might find yourself some day at Carnegie Hall receiving an award for doing something that you love.” – Jenna Lyons

“Not very long ago, the only way to distinguish the justices by appearance was to separate the bearded from the close-shaven. Is it not, as Nina said, a wonderful sign of progress that now three women serve on our Supreme court an no one confuses me with Justice Sotomayor or Justice Kagan.” – Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsberg

“Whatever you choose however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I hope you choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.” – Nora Ephron

“It’s hard for me to fathom the idea of being a woman of the year, not in a humble pie way because who me is one of the most annoying genres of things to say as we know. It’s just that what I do is not Bader-Ginsberg level change, and I mess up, and I fall down, and I goof up. [But] I encourage every woman in this room and outside its walls to not be silent about your rights whatever that means to you. I’d like to dedicate this...

“I think [Ethel Kennedy’s] glamour comes from her vision of the world, and my mother has the attitude that nothing is impossible, and this has carried her though her life – through difficult moments and great moments, and on a basic level of just getting 11 children dressed in ski clothes and up the mountain. My mother is relentless and is up for anything.” – Rory Kennedy

“I’m so honored to be in a room with woman who I can only aspire to be as good as they are one day. I just wanted to share with the girls out there that you have a voice; you have a chance to do whatever it is you love whether it’s acting or singing and just being true to who you are. ” – Selena Gomez

“For all of you girls who are striving for your dreams don’t ever stop. Always keep pushing, and don’t let anyone or anything stop you from what you want to accomplish.” –Gabby Douglas “I know when I’m defeated, when I’m worn out, and I ask myself, ‘Why do I continue to torture my body like this?’ It’s the phenomenal women...