Feminism Quotes · Page 126

I do feel I have a responsibility to empower women and to inspire them.

— Kylie Bunbury

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.

— Anna Howard Shaw

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

— Mignon McLaughlin

All the women in my life are formidable. I have seen them all step up to handle adversity with grace.

— Rick Owens

All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.

— Daniel Mainwaring

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

— Les Dawson

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

— Robert Frost

“Being adored is a nuisance. Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us…

— Oscar Wilde

“But here’s the thing: other people’s opinions are not the truth. We live in a world that puts us into boxes and…

— Kelly Jensen

Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been…

— Amelia Bloomer

It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge…

— Inga Muscio

But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate…

— Barbara Kruger

Being a powerful woman who also exhibits great warmth is an incredible feat because people think that to be powerful you have…

— Taylor Swift

I would say one of the reasons that women don't invest to the same extent that men do, is because we still…

— Sallie Krawcheck

Men are shallow - we don't remember things like women do. Or we don't bring it up and blurt it out at…

— Steve Lillywhite

“I have a rule of thumb that allows me to judge, when times is pressing and one needs to make a snap…

— Caitlin Moran

“Right now, many female activists in their forties, fifties, sixties, seventies, and eighties are gazing thoughtfully into the glowing embers of lesbian…

— Bonnie J Morris

“But men and women are different in the way that they feel loved. Men like to be admired for what they do,…

— Carol McCormick

I don't see myself as a crusading feminist filmmaker. Not at all. I have the luxury of coming from New Zealand and…

— Niki Caro

“The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“These days, however, I am much calmer - since I realised that it’s technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism.…

— Caitlin Moran

Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life…

— George Bernard Shaw

“I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery from their men…They sit back…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The problem with most women is that they give their all to a guy who isn't even willing to give her half…

— Ryaj Ablando Catayas

I never felt the need for feminism. I never felt competition with men, which I really believed started the movement.

— Angie Dickinson

I think women like to conquer hearts. Men like to conquer countries.

— Anjelica Huston

Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.

— Remy de Gourmont

A Smith & Wesson does more for empowering women than Feminism ever could

— Greg Gutfeld

Women dont want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think in a deeper voice.

— Bill Cosby

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.

— Clara Zetkin

CARE is participating in a groundbreaking summit to end sexual violence in conflict.

— Anonymous

“Men are right! Women belong in the house... The White House.”

— Sally Cummings heroine in Girl Power Dee Dawning

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

— Melinda Gates

I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.

— Erica Jong

The idea of men earning and women waiting at home for them, is over.

— Lara Dutta

Who's the power on the street? Young women. They're a strange breed: very confident.

— Paul Whitehouse

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

— Katharine Graham

Speaking as a man, it's not a woman's issue. Us men are tired of losing our women.

— Dan Quayle