Feminism Quotes · Page 162

There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

— Susie Bright

Paradoxically, when females reject the male, they usurp the masculine role and abandon the feminine one.

— Henry Makow

I fear that the migratory crisis signals the beginning of the end of women's rights.

— Marine Le Pen

I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The point of feminism is you shouldn't have to be a man to be treated with equal respect.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“of learning young that having a hunch is, like so many female facets, both misery and boon.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.

— Lianne La Havas

The idea of what a feminist is has changed so much that there needs to be a new word for it.

— Trinny Woodall

We have to keep advocating for women's rights, wherever they are being pushed against wherever it happens anywhere in the world.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing…

— Eve Ensler

I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely…

— Sam Smith

Liberal-socialist women generalize about women as if they are some sort of monolithic voting block of disenfranchised, victimized citizens.

— Charlie Kirk

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is…

— Joseph Conrad

Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of…

— Jean de La Fontaine

Online media is the future, and younger feminists are already instrumental in using social media and multi-media platforms on the web to…

— Jennifer Baumgardner

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for…

— Vivienne Westwood

It took me quite a while to even admit that I was a feminist because I was ignorant of what it meant…

— Justin Baldoni

Women are different from men in major, major ways. I have found more courage in women than you could ever find in…

— Maya Tiwari

Technology is making it easier for women to connect to business opportunities around the world. Legal obstacles must not be allowed to…

— Arancha Gonzalez

Even after four years in office, George W. Bush's record on women doesn't leap out at you. It's composed almost entirely of…

— Molly Ivins

“ men call it the tyranny of tears, it is an iron tyranny- no man could be so cruel, so devishlish,as a…

— Christina Stead

Women face unique challenges in society, no doubt. But focusing narrowly on women as a special interest group isn't the winning play.…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

As the highest-ranking Republican woman in the U.S. House of Representatives and the mom of two daughters, I believe if we're serious…

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

“Asserting the rights which women in common with men ought to contend for, I have not attempted to extenuate their faults; but…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

— Meghan O'Rourke

Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.

— Gloria Steinem

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.

— Cate Blanchett

One day I look forward to making dinner for my husband and children. I don't want to be a career feminist.

— Lisa Haydon

“Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods—they worship us and keep bothering us to do something for them.”

— Oscar Wilde

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

— Shania Twain

Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.

— Bill Mollison

Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.

— Anonymous

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it…

— Jane Austen

“Aziz was that rare type of man a woman could love without losing her self-respect.”

— Elif Shafak

We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

— Karen DeCrow

Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.

— Karin Slaughter

As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy.

— Sheryl Sandberg

We women have a great function to perform. The world needs us.

— Ruby Dee

“Remember those dudes catcalling on the street? They have literally become cats (there is always room for more cats).”

— Alexandra Brodsky