Feminism Quotes · Page 168

“A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

People say I think too much about women, yet, after all what is there more important to think about?

— Auguste Rodin

I most certainly think we are influencing the way women think about themselves.

— Kam Williams

We need to put an end to discrimination against women, and the power to bring about this change lies in our hands.

— Shruti Haasan

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Mary Astell

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

— Barbra Streisand

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

— Cate Blanchett

To be honest, I felt more myself with that haircut. I felt bold, and it felt empowering because it was my choice.…

— Emma Watson

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice

— Anonymous

So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic…

— Sri Mulyani Indrawati

We often run the risk, when discussing women empowerment, to think that this is about women talking about women with other women,…

— Arancha Gonzalez

Men would have shown more Emotion if they didn't think it was a women thing to do. May be if they did…

— Glen Rambharack

I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her…

— Donna Karan

Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by…

— Christina Stead

Maybe that's because there are so few women lobbyists; if they're there, it's for something they strongly believe in, not just for…

— Jessica Chastain

“["Manning Up"'s] essays definitely nuance the idea of transitioning into a “shared manhood” (much like feminists of color have complicated the idea…

— Mitch Kellaway

Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in…

— Bertrand Russell

“The dowager said, “I was tremendously struck by what you said at the gym the other day. About powerlessness. About how powerlessness…

— Haruki Murakami

It's very hard, I think especially for women, to not take it in and to not be super conscious of the way…

— June Diane Raphael

I think many times young women do not give sufficient weight to the unique contribution that they can bring to any discussion…

— Nancy Pelosi

Any board executive can forget just how many people helped them get where they are. Those women who have got to the…

— Karren Brady

I'm feminist in that I believe that there should be equality between men and women. I get deeply frustrated on a daily…

— Lauren Groff

“Abusive relationships exist because they provide enough rations of warmth, laughter, and affection to clutch onto like a security blanket in the…

— Maggie Young

The podcast revolution has taught us that women's voices aren't just pleasurable to listen to, they are essential.

— Michelle Dean

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

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

— Alexander McQueen

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

— Helen Clark

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

— Kin Hubbard

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

— Melinda Gates

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

— Abby Johnson

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

— Cathy Engelbert

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

— Alessandro Michele

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

— Sarah Winnemucca

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

Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.

— Sherry Argov