Feminism Quotes · Page 109

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like.

— Sheila Heti

“For the right woman, we all strive to be a man worth his salt.”

— Kristy McCaffrey

A good woman aught not have too ask, a Good Man ready knows...

— Melchor Lim

“But females in even the most advanced Muslim countries are simply, by law, not the equal of men.”

— Bill Maher

What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.

— Pam Bondi

Internalized sexism that makes us feel like we can't show ourselves not being perfect.

— Kathleen Hanna

Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.

— H. L. Mencken

the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.

— Susan Faludi

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

— Oscar Wilde

“As Sister Joan Chittister, a direct descendant of Hildegard in the Benedictine tradition, says, the issue today is not “radical feminism,” which…

— Matthew Fox

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in…

— Kristin Davis

I think that women are raised to believe that they're supposed to want certain things, and so you feel like you're supposed…

— Shonda Rhimes

I actually believe we are the superior gender. Why are we superior? Statistically, we outlive men by a good 10 years. No…

— Twinkle Khanna

The more women we elect to public office, the more wholesome the whole process will be, whether it's government, politics, whatever.

— Nancy Pelosi

“when women are ovulating, their fusiform face areas respond more to faces, with the (“emotional”) vmPFCs responding more to men’s faces in…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers…

— Ezra Taft Benson

To make computer science more attractive to women, we might help young women change how they think about themselves and what's expected…

— Eileen Pollack

I am here to say that there is no drawback to being a woman in business. But if you think it's a…

— Jeanie Buss

“One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) but the plain fact about the senator…

— Christopher Hitchens

The transsexually constructed lesbian-feminist feeds off woman’s true energy source, i.e. her woman-identified self. It is he who recognises that if female…

— Janice Raymond

And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“Women have complained, justly, about the behavior of “macho” men. But despite their he-man pretensions and their captivation by masculine heroes of…

— Wendell Berry

“KINGDOM OF THE WOMB From her thighs, she gives you life And how you treat she who gives you life Shows how…

— Suzy Kassem

“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she…

— Maya Angelou

The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

— Gail Sheehy

Women don't know what they want.. Men don't know what they have..!

— Anonymous

“I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior.”

— Katherine Hepburn

A real man is not measured only by the respect he gives himself, but also by the respect he gives his woman.

— Anonymous

The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.

— Annie Lennox

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

— Tillie Olsen

I did have a feminist side to me, just not in such a pronounced way.

— Park Chan-wook

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Too often women put themselves on the back burner to take care of everything and everyone else.

— Phaedra Parks

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

— Shulamith Firestone

The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want…

— Joseph Conrad

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

— Yancy Butler

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

— Betty Friedan

The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.

— John Stuart Mill

Women should get together and become the pillars of support for each other.

— Kalki Koechlin

Instead of just talking about the fact that women should be equal, let's put legislation that enforces pay equity.

— Jagmeet Singh