Feminism Quotes · Page 167

“The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism.”

— bell hooks

It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble.

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

— Betty Buckley

No smart woman should ever file for divorce without a strategic plan of action which includes a full exit strategy.

— Anonymous

I have to tell you, though, the sexism in late night talk is so profound.

— Kathy Griffin

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

— Honore de Balzac

Women did not have as many options as men, and I need to reflect that reality in my mysteries.

— Sharon Kay Penman

“Sometimes the women much resent the men who call for war and have been known to rush upon them and beat them…

— Peter Matthiessen

“And so my thoughts have lead me to believe that childless men and women lead lives more fortunate than those with sons…

— Euripides

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of…

— Gordon Taylor

The social and legal discrimination that relegates hundreds of women to subordinate or marginal economic roles has a huge aggregate cost.

— Arancha Gonzalez

All humans are part male and part female. The other side must be explored to gain complete understanding ofourselves and the world…

— Billy Corgan

A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words. [Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The zeal with which Victorian reformers worked to ‘protect’ women from such jobs as mining was more a concern for the effect…

— Gabrielle Palmer

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire…

— M.E. Thomas

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take…

— Thomas Sankara

I think that we're just fortunate that you have an experienced legislator: 26 years of fighting for our issues in line. I…

— Eleanor Smeal

Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and…

— Bell Hooks

I believe that there are certain attributes in a woman that give her some advantages over a man. Women are usually more…

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Dignity of women is our collective responsibility. There should be no compromise in this matter. There should be no erosion in the…

— Narendra Modi

In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and…

— Catharine Beecher

“Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don’t understand that…

— Dalma Heyn

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

— Anonymous

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

— Louise Erdrich

“Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.”

— Doris Lessing

If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn’t be any God-damned wars in the first place!

— Sally Field

Most of those who claim to be women are not truly women at all, they are just female impostors.

— Tia Nnebo

Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.

— Jodi Picoult

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

— David Mitchell

We women are fools to do so much for the man we love. And we forget to stand for ourselves.

— Divyanka Tripathi

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.

— Peter S. Prescott

Men don't quite know how to read women if they're not used to seeing them in a business environment.

— Sandra E. Peterson

Women should listen and learn quietly and submissively. I do not let women teach men or have authority over them.

— Pat Robertson

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at…

— Susan B. Anthony

“Just got called a slag by two guys sitting outside the University of York library. A slag for books?”

— Laura Bates

It's time for men to be held accountable when they make women feel uncomfortable or do things out of line.

— Logan Browning

Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

— Lady Gaga

I didn't quite agree with the Supreme Court ruling that forced civic clubs to take women.

— Anita Bryant