Feminism Quotes · Page 112

Wow! Nobody needs this much. You know the average woman is only five inches deep.

— Miranda Hobbes

Gender and sex are about rules which we have invented, but we are animals; we belong to nature.

— Alessandro Michele

Woman who have been broken need a man who's a mender not a pretender.

— IsiahNunn

“Any beginning is also an ending, you know. You can’t have just the one.”

— Suzette Haden Elgin

“I have discovered the reason why a man pays for a woman: he wants to be happy.”

— Paulo Coelho's

I believe women and minorities often wait for permission to be invited to something; we need to stop doing that.

— Ilhan Omar

Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

— Joseph Conrad

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

— Margaret Mead

I think men need classes on how to treat a woman, rather than women taking self defense classes so we aren't assaulted…

— Anonymous

It's not so much about powerful women. In some cases, there are stereotypes about women. I often don't hear men talked about…

— Anna Wintour

Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near…

— Angelina Jolie

“Society is obsessed with women's bodies and I take my body back by doing whatever it is that I want to do…

— Malebo Sephodi

I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work…

— Edna Ferber

“I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Sure, sexism is not confined to the Conservatives. Harriet Harman has suggested that Gordon Brown didn't make her deputy prime minister because…

— Layla Moran

He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than…

— Anonymous

I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought…

— Ani DiFranco

“I shou'd not myself have thought [Cato] worth so much notice as I have here taken of him; but that the Men…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

You can't always say and do things and wait until the right moment, when everything is perfectly lined up. As women, I…

— Jessica Mendoza

It is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just…

— Eric Van Lustbader

Venus Williams is a multi-millionaire not in spite of the fact that she is a woman, but precisely because she's a woman.…

— Stephen Moore

Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters…

— Max Frisch

If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

— Mahatma Gandhi

“...women have endurance, I'll say they have. Built like Angora kittens, and with the constitutions of beef critters.”

— Jarvis Hall

If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.

— Robert Jordan

“Bless the ladies and their charming inconsistency! They demand to be treated like men, but they react like women.”

— Elizabeth Peters

Of course [I'm a feminist]. And everyone I know is a feminist.

— Chelsea Clinton

I think, men and women are different. We have different challenges.

— Laura Ingraham

I'm beginning to think that women should be denied the vote. Their hormones rage; they are too emotional.

— Michael Savage

Women understand women and don't like each other. Men don't understand women and we love them.

— Richie

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

— Pericles

One solid, motivated woman is 10x better than a group of broke grindless hoes.

— Annoymous

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

— Ban Ki-moon

“The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.”

— Theodore Sturgeon

I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.

— Susan Stroman

Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last.

— Rumi

“Don't dare presume there's shame in the lot of a woman who carries on.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

— Jules Michelet