Feminism Quotes · Page 156

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

— Pearl S. Buck

Women are good at emotional things. We are emotional people. It is much harder to be cold and unemotional.

— Yvette Mimieux

The Democrats have tried the war against women in the past. It didn't really have that much traction.

— Mark Shields

Any man can love a million women, but it takes a real man to love one woman a million ways.

— Nick Jonas

“No matter how many things women suffer, nothing can take away their appetite for trouble.”

— Pausanias

“Men are weird and stronger, women are strange and superior.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms.

— Steve Harvey

“A man's desire for a woman have power to effect striking results that will blow your mind.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider…

— William Cobbett

Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want…

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Feminists will not be satisfied until every abortion is performed by a gay black doctor under an endangered tree on a reservation…

— Florence King

I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it--…

— Rudyard Kipling

When you talk about feminism, you're talking about the rights of all women and their families to live in dignity, peace, and…

— Linda Sarsour

“...if we have to, we can do anything. We are strong, and when one of us isn't feeling all that invincible, the…

— Lisa Kogan

For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize…

— Pearl S. Buck

Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into ‘boardrooms,’ when the problem is that there are altogether too…

— Laurie Penny

Throughout history, the human species has struggled to some extent. It's part of us, as human beings, to provide better for our…

— Patricia Arquette

When I was a kid, I was always around boys. I was always trying to keep up with boys - skateboarding and…

— Daria Werbowy

I hate how box office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don’t see a box office failure blamed on men.…

— Ellen Page

In addition to being an economic security issue, the failure to pay women a salary that's equal to men for equal work…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

“Men do oppress women. People are hurt by rigid sexist role patterns. These two realities coexist. Male oppression of women cannot be…

— Bell Hooks

I'm not in the slightest wanting to attack the women's movement here. But I think that in popular, broadly left-wing, broadly feminist…

— Mary Beard

What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still…

— Hanna Rosin

“I am. . . .power. . I am. . . .joy . . . . .peace. . . . . I am.…

— Suenammi Richards

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

— Julia Stiles

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

— Stanley Baldwin

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

— Jane Fonda

If you are strong women then you have the world in your hand and no one can tell you what to do.

— Anonymous

I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know…

— Sylvia Plath

men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

— Michelle Bachelet

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

— Desmond Tutu

Women talk their way through problems; men think their way through.

— Koena Mitra

“Women made civilisation impossible with all their “charm ” all their silliness.”

— Virginia Woolf

It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.

— Andrea Jeremiah

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

— Elizabeth Moon

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the level of quality men or women in this world is getting worse!

— Anonymous

But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

— Katherine Dunn