Feminism Quotes · Page 102

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.

— Susan B. Anthony

We're seeing that women continue to make less money, they continue to face violence.

— Niki Ashton

“She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.”

— Núria Añó

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.

— Stephen Leacock

The women are the movers and shakers in the community...they initiate things...they keep things going.

— Pat O'Shane

Let's respect women for the value - let's respect everyone, men and women, for the value they bring to the workplace.

— Nancy Pelosi

Women are the most underutilized 'resource' in the world economy.

— Arancha Gonzalez

Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the…

— Margaret Mead

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and…

— Daniel Defoe

Equality is not when a female Einstein gets promoted to assistant professor: Equality is when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast…

— Ewald B Nyquist

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the…

— Anonymous

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they may be considered…

— Anonymous

I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator.…

— Amy Grant

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite…

— Andre Maurois

In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and…

— J. B. Priestley

Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no…

— Dale Spender

“A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. I…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“The #GIRLBOSS who is willing to do a job that is below her—and above—is the one who stands out. Above, you ask?…

— Sophia Amoruso

Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you…

— Alissa Quart

You know what? I am actually not that much into voting. I think it’s kinda crazy that a woman is running, because…

— Brooke Hogan

Young women can be particularly hampered by a lack of female teachers, since they may not feel as comfortable in classes taught…

— Tae Yoo

But fighting to give women and girls a fighting chance isn’t a nice thing to-do. It isn’t some luxury that we get…

— Hillary Clinton

Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard,…

— Adrienne Rich

I know the force women can exert in directing the course of events.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

We sent out 3,000 Valentines to the ladies, asking them to be my voter.

— Terry Dill

Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.

— Emma Bonino

The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change.

— David Suzuki

I think the female gaze is important because we cannot have just one perspective on anything.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

— John Selden

No matter what we as individual women want, no matter what our goals, we have to support one another.

— Zosia Mamet

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

— Henrietta Szold

As educated girls become women, they can transform local communities and act as role models for younger girls.

— Tae Yoo

Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a…

— H. Rider Haggard

“When you are playing the ‘strong and independent’ woman game, YOU ARE IN RESISTANCE TO YOUR OWN SENSUALITY.”

— Lebo Grand

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

— Vita Sackville-West

Women are especially sensible in matters relating to tipping: fair but not foolish.

— Michael Frome

If women had to give a blowjob every time they said something bad, there would be no more obese women.

— Nikhil Saluja

The executive female talent gap is real, and that's why it's critical to champion women throughout their careers.

— Kim Reynolds

Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.

— Anna Cora Mowatt