Feminism Quotes · Page 175

Violence against women and girls is one of the most systematic and widespread human rights violations.

— Anonymous

Women are strong. We can do it all. But not always at the same time.

— Diane von Furstenberg

I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.

— Anonymous

To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.

— Marie Bashkirtseff

Gender and sex are about rules which we have invented, but we are animals; we belong to nature.

— Alessandro Michele

Wow! Nobody needs this much. You know the average woman is only five inches deep.

— Miranda Hobbes

Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Woman who have been broken need a man who's a mender not a pretender.

— IsiahNunn

It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs…

— Emma Forrest

Power relations between men and women must change profoundly, men must be partners in the pursuit of gender equality, in their decision-making…

— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her…

— Edward Hoagland

The consequence of a very free commerce between the sexes, and of their living much together, will often terminate in intrigues and…

— David Hume

When a man truly loves a woman, she becomes his weakness. When a woman truly loves a man he becomes her strength.…

— Anonymous

“Soon, a national and international feminist movement was challenging the idea that what happened to men was political but what happened to…

— Jay Allison

I think that idea of 'because I'm sexy, I'm a feminist' is kind of immature. But as long as women think being…

— Ann Wilson

I would chance saying globally there is a feeling that female empowerment has, at last, become a topic that is fashionable, and…

— Gwendoline Christie

The biggest need that women have is more time. We all want more time in our lives. More time in the morning…

— Renee Ellmers

Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences;…

— Naomi Weisstein

“But we [women] are only at the beginning [of revamping feminism]. And our strictures on each other prove this. Our enforcement of…

— Erica Jong

We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of…

— Marion Kirkland Reid

There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and shouldn'ts and can'ts and wants that…

— Caroline Knapp

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions…

— Andrea Dworkin

We must all acknowledge our unconscious biases, and listen with less bias when women, and others who are marginalized, speak out. A…

— Tara Moss

“Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself…

— Laurie Penny

“I have discovered the reason why a man pays for a woman: he wants to be happy.”

— Paulo Coelho's

“Any beginning is also an ending, you know. You can’t have just the one.”

— Suzette Haden Elgin

I believe women and minorities often wait for permission to be invited to something; we need to stop doing that.

— Ilhan Omar

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

— Henry David Thoreau

Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

— Leo Tolstoy

If we give girls and women the chance to change their lives, they can change the world.

— Frida Giannini

No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work.

— Dyllan McGee

“Don't we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?”

— Tamora Pierce

There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do..

— Margaret Mitchell

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

— B. R. Ambedkar

Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

— William Hazlitt

Feminism is just an overused term and people make too much noise about it for no reason.

— Lisa Haydon

“In China there are said to be three genders—men, women, and women with graduate degrees.”

— Marc Cameron

“Women were created gullible. It they weren't no babies would be born.”

— Dakota Dawn

The truth is, that what women have to do is not work for less money. They have to walk away.

— Amy Pascal

The world belongs to those who want to make a difference, and gender is no barrier.

— Ananya Birla