Feminism Quotes · Page 143

Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.

— Warren Farrell

Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.

— Warren Beatty

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

— Clare Boothe Luce

“To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.”

— Hélène Cixous

“What is with those Wakefield women that makes them think they’re better than everybody?' Ken asked.”

— Francine Pascal

They say you can never win from a woman in an arguement, I say you can never win from a woman in…

— Nikhil Saluja

Women have always been strong; women have been capable and able and amazing at life.

— Lindsey Morgan

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside…

— Gloria Steinem

I've always thought feminism had a lot to say about both genders, as it is hard to talk about one without the…

— Matt Haig

Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman…

— Sena Jeter Naslund

Georgian England was very radical; there were all these new revolutionary ideas, and I think women had more freedom than they did…

— Marion Bailey

“...I learned the power of identity--the idea that even an uneducated woman, like myself, who hadn't read Mary Wollstonecraft or bell hooks,…

— Amber Dawn

A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she…

— Vera Nazarian

“Her view of men was one-dimensional, but not inaccurate: men were prisoners of their genitalia and women were the keepers of the…

— Pat Conroy

I am constantly surprised that the simple word 'feminism' raises more eyebrows and initiates more sad-faced head-shaking than any elaborate stream of…

— Gina Barreca

... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“in Feminism Lite, that men are naturally superior but should be expected to ‘treat women well’. No. No. No. There must be…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Cosmopolitanism seeks a _we_ that does not rely on the exclusion of _others_ but, instead, recognizes and confirms each other as part…

— Namsoon Kang

“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have…

— Virginia Woolf

Too often, women are waiting for someone to recognise their great work and tap them on the shoulder and say, 'Here -…

— Lynne Doughtie

“Women, even the most oppressed among us, do exercise power. These powers can be used to advance feminist struggle. Forms of power…

— bell hooks

“Mámá was fond of saying that nothing tastes as good as skinny feels—an aphorism I was pretty sure she'd cribbed from the…

— Nenia Campbell

Innovating Women is more important today than ever. Things are changing for the better. The recent announcements by Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and…

— Vivek Wadhwa

They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .

— Terry Pratchett

Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?

— Andrea Dworkin

“No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.”

— Chris Kraus

I've been feminist for most of my life, it is a constantly evolving idea, not something static.

— Bonnie Greer

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

— Fay Weldon

Women are just hungry for love, for love is more sensitive than necessary

— Mak_786

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.

— Jane Austen

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

— Lena Dunham

I am a feminist. And I don't think of that as being anti-men, I think about it as equal rights for women.

— Marcia Clark

I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.

— Anonymous

It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.

— Arlene Croce

So I hope women will consider a life in politics. We need women, you see. We need them.

— Jo Swinson

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

— Anonymous

We have seen a lot of barriers removed for women like myself with young children to be able to run for office.

— MJ Hegar

I think there is another choice for women; it involves challenging Guyland and supporting each other.

— Michael Kimmel

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

— Gloria Steinem