Feminism Quotes · Page 108

“The primary feature of women is not a 'beauty', it's a 'mystery'.”

— Amit Kalantri

There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially,

— Gloria Allred

Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.

— Dylan Moran

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

— Jean Giraudoux

I believe the world will fundamentally change the more women become economically empowered.

— Marie Forleo

When you educate a girl, you begin to change the face of a nation.

— Oprah Winfrey

Women are here to serve men. Look at them, they got to squat to piss. Hell, that proves it.

— Larry Flynt

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

— Lena Dunham

“Now we know that women can do what men can do, but we don't know that men can do what women can…

— Sheryl Sandberg

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior.…

— Myriam Miedzian

Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need…

— Joss Whedon

Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but…

— Bell Hooks

The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human…

— Margaret Mead

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is…

— Sheryl Sandberg

We can't avoid tough decisions on tax, spending and pay. But that makes it even more important that we take care to…

— Rachel Reeves

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do…

— Satchel Paige

“The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in…

— Emma Goldman

“I have a date,' he explained. 'This is an emergency.' He paused to catch his breath. 'Do you know' - breath -…

— John Green

Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they…

— Daniel Defoe

“Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women's bodies], we are now being called monstrous, and the Iron…

— Naomi Wolf

I do feel it's crucial that women's opinions be taken equally with men's. But still'I have not been accepted by the American…

— Kola Boof

“[Women] are conditioned to ever prove ourselves, as if our value is contingent on our ability to meet the expectations of others.…

— Melissa Febos

There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male…

— Ray Bradbury

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.

— Jane Austen

I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.

— Anonymous

I am a feminist. And I don't think of that as being anti-men, I think about it as equal rights for women.

— Marcia Clark

It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.

— Arlene Croce

So I hope women will consider a life in politics. We need women, you see. We need them.

— Jo Swinson

I think there is another choice for women; it involves challenging Guyland and supporting each other.

— Michael Kimmel

We have seen a lot of barriers removed for women like myself with young children to be able to run for office.

— MJ Hegar

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

— Anonymous

Women should not let anybody take them for a ride. If they face such things, they should talk about it.

— Urvashi Rautela

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

When a man realizes the value of his woman, he adds value to himself.

— Anonymous

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

— Gloria Steinem

The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

— Shana Alexander

Culturally, there is often the expectation that women should be repelled by anything too ugly, too violent.

— Laura van den Berg

It's not often that a strong female role comes across one's desk, unfortunately, but it's getting better.

— Cristin Milioti

Women's currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

— Susan Cheever