Feminism Quotes · Page 103

Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

— Shulamith Firestone

Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I want the men of our nation to stand and take a stand against gender based violence.

— Zozibini Tunzi

“All women know that bridesmaid dresses are a secret plot if the devil.”

— Helena S. Paige

Women are like coconuts. Sometimes you have to hit them really fucking hard before they will spread open.

— Nikhil Saluja

Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.

— Lord Chesterfield

Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times

— Katha Pollitt

“[Dr. Johnson thought that] Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most…

— James Boswell

“If single Western women travelers have a hard time in Luxor, it is as nothing as compared to what single Western men…

— John R. Bradley

There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people…

— Jordan Peterson

I think if there's anything 2016 has taught me, it's that we have a real hard time with women in our society;…

— Zal Batmanglij

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else…

— Brian Eno

It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity.

— Stella Young

These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo,…

— Lynda Barry

The reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before…

— Emma Watson

“You're a beautiful young woman walking without an escort at one in the morning. Why doesn't one of your staff at least…

— Jeaniene Frost

As a woman and as a feminist, I am very well aware of how women have been oppressed and segregated for a…

— Jacques Myard

Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because…

— Roseanne Barr

“The social invisibility of women's experience is not "a failure of human communication." It is a socially arranged bias persisted in long…

— Joanna Russ

It was only when I got to college that I realized that the rest of the world didn't run the way my…

— Joss Whedon

We do look for inspiration amongst our own sex. Why not? You go into temples and they're full of all the lineage…

— Tenzin Palmo

Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for…

— Betty Friedan

When I joined Uber, the organization I was part of was over 25% women. By the time I was trying to transfer…

— Susan Fowler

society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

— Shirley Williams

Our society and institutions are built to push men and women into different roles. We need to change that.

— Caroline Criado-Perez

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them

— Peter Ustinov

Success to us is not just a girl overseas going to school - but also leading her village to a better future.

— Craig Kielburger

Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women.

— Christian Rudder

My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.

— Tom Ford

I think feminism is the worst thing that ever happened to women. Our job used to be no job. We had it…

— Ali Wong

“Some women don't care what you can do for them. They care about what you could make of them in the inside.”

— Shannon L. Alder

We are in a world where men and women are on the same platform.

— Rakul Preet Singh

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

— Groucho Marx

“A woman will never fall in love with a man who doesn’t dominate her, however slightly.”

— Waguih Ghali

I pray that in the future, no one knows the meaning of women empowerment because we don't need these words.

— Manushi Chhillar

“More women would be feminists but we spotted the haircuts before we joined”

— Daily Florence

Women do cry, sometimes meek and submissive. But once ignited or motivated; they are a lot stronger than men.

— Ces Peta

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

— Euripides

The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women

— Barack Obama