Nichiren

"If you contemplate this sutra day and night and read it morning and evening, you will become an extraordinary practitioner of the Lotus Sutra. The character sha in the phrase "ze-kyoden-sha" (one who upholds this sutra) means any person; therefore, the phrase can mean anyone who has faith in the Lotus Sutra among monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen..."..it is only the Lotus Sutra that declares: "A women who upholds this sutra is superior to not only other women but also men."
--- from Shijo Kingo Dono Nyobo Gohenji, Reply to the Wife of Shijo Kingo, Nyonin Gosho, ST.856