Feminism Quotes · Page 116

If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer.

— Randolph M. Nesse

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

— Steve Harvey

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Would higher taxes and a crumbling economy help women succeed, either personally or professionally? I don't think so.

— Lara Trump

We as women need to change our gaze from HOW WE ARE 'SEEN' to HOW WE ARE 'SEEING'.

— Tracee Ellis Ross

“In many cases, women need to be more open to taking risks in their careers.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.

— Amber Valletta

Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.

— Susie Orbach

Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up…

— Doris Lessing

There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.

— Karyn Kusama

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

— Anonymous

Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of…

— Ellen DuBois

“Because the griots who compose these texts are part of a patriarchal system that frequently devalues women, we should not be surprised…

— Hugh R. Page Jr

“The problem with women was that they were always planning some future that involved you and that you were not aware of,…

— Jean Thompson

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much…

— Anonymous

“A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making her stretch and grow…

— Betty Friedan

The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the…

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

Somehow we have been taught to believe that the experiences of girls and women are not important in the study and understanding…

— Jeanne Elium (20th Century

Feminism is not here to dictate to you. It’s not prescriptive, it’s not dogmatic. All we are here to do is give…

— Emma Watson

Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction…

— Mary Daly

I've never run across anybody who suggested that women need to be reprogrammed. I don't think I've even come across anybody who…

— Rush Limbaugh

I feel like so much of mainstream feminism springs from the second wave, which was essentially a discourse spearheaded by white, cisgender,…

— Hari Nef

When we think about Islamic feminism, it is not just about women's rights. It's about a more progressive and tolerant expression of…

— Asra Nomani

Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out…

— Honore de Balzac

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

— Anna Brownell Jameson

“The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism.”

— bell hooks

Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there.

— Robert Breault

I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

— Michelle Bachelet

Oh, I think Rupert's gorgeous. He is, he's totally gorgeous! Very handsome, very handsome indeed.

— Emma Watson

The raw wage gap number is not a measure of equal pay for equal work. It is a comparison of averages.

— Nancy Mace

“sometimes a man’s purpose in a woman’s life is to make her a better woman for the next man.”

— Jessica N. Watkins

Having a daughter has reawakened my sense of feminism. I want to protect her.

— Abi Morgan

Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.

— Clare Wright

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

— Betty Buckley

It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble.

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

I have to tell you, though, the sexism in late night talk is so profound.

— Kathy Griffin

No smart woman should ever file for divorce without a strategic plan of action which includes a full exit strategy.

— Anonymous

“Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.”

— Doris Lessing

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

— Louise Erdrich