Feminism Quotes · Page 118

“Women shouldn't judge each others lives, if we haven't been through one another's fires.”

— Lisa Taddeo

The podcast revolution has taught us that women's voices aren't just pleasurable to listen to, they are essential.

— Michelle Dean

Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.

— Cate Blanchett

Throughout history, women have often been treated as second-class citizens and their voices silenced.

— Abby Johnson

To take women's equality from novelty to norm, we need to change narratives at a societal and individual level.

— Cathy Engelbert

There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.

— Kin Hubbard

If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

— Melinda Gates

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

— Helen Clark

We must ensure that girls do not close off career paths by limiting the subjects that they study - this is why…

— Nicky Morgan

Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the…

— Zainab Salbi

Women are naturally good motivators, good at juggling different projects and issues at the same time, and more cooperative rather than aggressive…

— Bridget A Macaskill

It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she…

— Jane Austen

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

— Gloria Steinem

“For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally…

— Charles Bernheimer

Getting more girls a good education requires an approach that harnesses the collective efforts of developing nations, donor nations, multilateral organizations, NGOs,…

— Julia Gillard

“Feminism was good for me, as were any number of causes, but as I developed as a thinking person, the truisms and…

— Siri Hustvedt

“In the midst of these fine gentlemen with their great names and their ancient traditions of respectability, the two women sat face…

— Émile Zola

“The lingerie department is the only one that she can reach in her wheelchair. Nevertheless, she is fired the next day because…

— Rosemarie Garland Thomson

Men think of women as people who just augment their experience. Women's value isn't a given. But getting to know some incredible…

— Noel Wells

“Beowulf is usually seen as a masculine text, but I think that's somewhat unfair. The poem, while (with one exception) not structured…

— Maria Dahvana Headley

“What Friedan gave to the world was, "the problem that has no name." She not only named it but dissected it. The…

— Betty Friedan

Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made…

— Julian Bond

“although there are many factors that contribute to women's body-image issues, we cannot ignore the role that society plays in the aesthetics…

— Malebo Sephodi

It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which…

— Doris Lessing

Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.

— Alexander McQueen

There should be no boundaries, no hierarchy, no violence. Men and women are equal.

— Alessandro Michele

If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.

— Sarah Winnemucca

Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

— Shulamith Firestone

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

— Paul Scofield

That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em, We may live with, but cannot live without 'em.

— Frederic Reynolds

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

— Evelyn Waugh

Love is womans business,and in business we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

— Ali Bassam

Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.

— Eleanor Bron

I hope more women will join us in our journey towards a more balanced political system.

— Sylvia Lim

Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.

— Sherry Argov

Let's face it - selling weapons systems to the Army isn't women's work.

— Judith Love Cohen

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The man who is looking for a wife will not speak contemptuously of women.

— Vikrant Parsai

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

“It became obvious that you had to be a feminist because it was such a ridiculous state of affairs.”

— Fay Weldon