Feminism Quotes · Page 152

“A man who does not doubt the courage of a woman, is a man that is subjugated by her will and allure.”

— Lionel Suggs

“Women like to make up rules to befuddle you...it's part of living in their world. Get used to it.”

— Lindsay Buroker

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

— Nick Cave

I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.

— Janice Dickinson

Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.

— Helen Fisher

“Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

— Barbra Streisand

Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.

— Mary Astell

Had I faltered we would have neither the success nor the international reputation we have. Yet when a woman is strong she…

— Margaret Thatcher

However much people want to politicize every movement of a controversial woman in life or on the screen, we just have to…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Too often, women find themselves in a position where they feel that the circumstances of life are pushing them to make a…

— Leslyn Lewis

Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have…

— Reed Morano

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between…

— Marianne Williamson

I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my…

— Joss Whedon

When Hillary Clinton was in the Clinton White House as first lady, the left - the right accused her of being wide…

— David Corn

I want women to have access to safe healthcare and be in control of their own bodies. I am a feminist. Everyone…

— Alice Glass

If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their…

— Gloria Steinem

The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance,…

— Saddam Hussein

We need to make everyone more aware of the benefits of empowering women. Then I think we can succeed faster. Because it's…

— Muhtar Kent

“Yeah, I feel like, as women, we have to choose between two different dire4ctions to make it in this world, either we…

— Jamie Varon

One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings…

— Honore de Balzac

the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living.…

— Marie Corelli

“Misogynists have often reproached intellectual women for 'letting themselves go'; but they also preach to them: if you want to be our…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“In college, educated women (I found out) were frigid; active women (I knew) were neurotic; women (we all knew) were timid, incapable,…

— Joanna Russ

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

— Cate Blanchett

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

— Ogden Nash

“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

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

— Melinda Gates

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

— Kin Hubbard

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

— Helen Clark

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

— Alexander McQueen

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

— Cathy Engelbert

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

— Abby Johnson

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

— Sarah Winnemucca

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

— Alessandro Michele

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

— Paul Scofield

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

— Shulamith Firestone

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

— Evelyn Waugh

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

— Frederic Reynolds