Feminism Quotes · Page 136

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

— Phyllis Schlafly

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

— Helen Clark

Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450

— Lauren Oliver

It's true that women appear very little in [Albert Camus] works. They have a very marginal place.

— Catherine Camus

I do look into the details, but I think all women are like that, they like to look into minute details, isn't…

— Divya Khosla Kumar

Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

— Bill Maher

There is nothing enduring in the life of a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.

— Judith Anderson

For me the beginning of all true progress in the woman question lies in women's right to vote...The strong the emphasis on…

— Hedwig Dohm

My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all…

— Iggy Azalea

Obviously, over the history of certainly the last 300 years, it was that men went out and worked, and women stayed home.…

— Donna Strickland

It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our…

— Jane Austen

The contrast of the world that we live in and the world that is here in Aspen and the world inhabited by…

— Annie Lennox

I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

— P. C. Cast

I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were…

— Nanci Griffith

“difficult to see the glass ceiling because it’s made of glass. Virtually invisible. What we need is for more birds to fly…

— Caitlin Moran

“Educated and ambitious, with their own forthright opinions, the women of the Garvey set did more to determine political direction than many…

— A. H. Septimius

International Women's Day, if it is to claim any kind of political relevance, has to reject ladies' Christmas consumerism and lowest-common-denominator universalism.…

— Ash Sarkar

“Another much-discussed question is, whether women are intended by nature to be subject to men.“No,” said a very gallant philosopher to me…

— Montesquieu

When Maryam Babangida and Mariam Abacha built the Women Centre and the National Hospital they did not carry the buildings when they…

— Patience Jonathan

“On ladies' nights they watch frozen-faced while their men embrace and fool about commenting to each other that they are all overgrown…

— Germaine Greer

“During the recent online culture wars, and their spillover into campus and protest politics, feminists have tried to embrace transgression with the…

— Angela Nagle

There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism…

— Amanda Palmer

“When statistics come in saying that only 29 percent of American women would describe themselves as feminist - and only 42 percent…

— Caitlin Moran

The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.

— Alec Waugh

A man can abuse his body a lot more than a woman can. And that's a fact.

— Hal Needham

If woman could read minds, every second man will get slapped.

— Carissa Aydaa

Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.

— Anonymous

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

— Pearl S. Buck

“It would take entire lifetimes for the men of Carthya to deserve their women.”

— Jennifer A. Nielsen

If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

— Adam Carolla

“Real Women are not Weak but are Wonderers, they Propel Men to Greatness”

— Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to…

— Ogden Nash

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure

— Dorothy Allison

A real woman is not the one who has a lot of men, it's the one who has one and knows how…

— KM II

Women are a lot like ducks-they don’t like mud on their butts.

— Phil Robertson

“In my experience, men who understand women as well as you seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.”

— Khaled Hosseini

When women go off together we call it separatism. When men go off together we call it Congress.

— Kate Clinton

When we talk about women's economic empowerment, we should be careful that we're not just giving women more to do.

— Winnie Byanyima

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

— Ellen Glasgow