Feminism Quotes · Page 127

All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.

— Yoko Ono

Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.

— Shulamith Firestone

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

— Rachel Cusk

“Women are created to inspire… neither men nor women utilize this well.”

— Sameh Elsayed

There are some women who are a good time and there are some women who are a good legacy.

— Mark Driscoll

“the only thing required to be a woman is to identify as one. - period, end of story.”

— Amanda Lovelace

“An ambitious woman never takes seriously men's compliments.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.

— Anita Borg

We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally…

— Mary Astell

Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

“Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go. You could…

— Margaret Atwood

“Our minds, society and neurosexism create difference. Together, they wire gender. But the wiring is soft, not hard. It is flexible, malleable…

— Cordelia Fine

Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be…

— Candace Bushnell

“I can't help noticing you appear to be traveling by yourself." "Yes, it's all the rage. Women looking after themselves. We'll be…

— James Robinson

“She understood as women often do more easily than men, that the declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat,…

— Peter Carey

“This defines the task of feminism not only because male dominance is perhaps the most pervasive and tenacious system of power in…

— Catharine A. MacKinnon

Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy on behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't…

— Andrea Dworkin

Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are…

— Ban Ki-moon

Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant,…

— Hanna Rosin

It's not by coincidence that a lot of protesters against the new presidency in America and in front of the Trump Tower,…

— Claude-Michel Schonberg

If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge…

— Catharine Beecher

If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response.…

— June Jordan

A lot of women have low self-esteem. I was just brought up around a lot of women and they were stern. Like,…

— Trina

Any woman who calls herself a post-feminist should keep her Wonderbra and burn her brains.

— Kathy Lette

“Besides, when I look around me at the men, I feel that God never meant us women to be too particular.”

— Marie Jenney Howe

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of…

— Hedi Slimane

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.

— Callie Khouri

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

— Harriet Harman

Women never really care to face the truth when their hearts are involved.

— Anthony Hopkins

To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise.

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.

— Walter Scott

I want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female.

— Twiggy

In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.

— Rebekah Brooks

Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“And if he presses, tell him it’s a female matter. That stops any question.”

— Elizabeth Hoyt

the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.

— Emily James Smith Putnam

Most women who have done something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone.

— Francoise Gilot

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

— Oliver Herford

There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.

— Benjamin Disraeli