Feminism Quotes · Page 107

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

— Henry David Thoreau

If we give girls and women the chance to change their lives, they can change the world.

— Frida Giannini

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

— B. R. Ambedkar

There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do..

— Margaret Mitchell

“Don't we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?”

— Tamora Pierce

No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work.

— Dyllan McGee

“In China there are said to be three genders—men, women, and women with graduate degrees.”

— Marc Cameron

Feminism is just an overused term and people make too much noise about it for no reason.

— Lisa Haydon

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

— Joseph de Maistre

A woman needs to be put together more than a man. If she isn't, she looks like she's not up for the…

— Jeanine Pirro

Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on,…

— Stacy Schiff

I definitely believe that we really need to stop putting things in masculine and feminine boxes and realize that men and women…

— Nelly Furtado

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly…

— Anonymous

I feel sad that we have allowed these knee-jerk feminists who want to act like it's a struggle against men...but again that's…

— Bell Hooks

“[Women need to realize that with] what they have in their hands there is no limit to what they could accomplish. The…

— Mother Jones

You can't really ever know what someone is like or what they're thinking. There are people who say they're feminists but who…

— Danielle Henderson

We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This…

— Kate O'Beirne

If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with…

— Bell Hooks

Women need to take charge of their lives and be as dynamic and active as they can be. I know that some…

— Amy Poehler

“Any woman who has moved from the playing fields of male discourse into the realm where women are developing our own descriptions…

— Adrienne Rich

“Does rough weather choose men over women? Does the sun beat on men, leaving women nice and cool?' Nyawira asked rather sharply.…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

“(Ezekial saw the wheel (Way up in the middle of the air -- (O Ezekial saw the wheel (Way in the middle…

— Joanna Russ

All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite…

— John Stuart Mill

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in…

— Emma Goldman

Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

— William Hazlitt

“Women were created gullible. It they weren't no babies would be born.”

— Dakota Dawn

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

— Virginia Woolf

The truth is, that what women have to do is not work for less money. They have to walk away.

— Amy Pascal

The world belongs to those who want to make a difference, and gender is no barrier.

— Ananya Birla

And just like men are responsible of the society, women also are equally responsible of the society they live in.

— Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

A man's main job is to protect his woman from her desire to 'get bangs' every other month.

— Dax Shepard

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

— Phyllis Schlafly

Every woman deserves a man who respects her and every man deserves a woman who appreciates his efforts.

— Green Monk

We women want to take the easy way out. I appreciate men because they take risks.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.

— O. Henry

The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement.

— Diane Wilson

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

— Adrienne Rich

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

— Germaine Greer

I think the more women we have running for office the better.

— Elise Stefanik

You have to work hard as a woman for people to take you seriously.

— Mabel