Feminism Quotes · Page 185

I think powerful women don't care whether or not they're liked.

— Tama Janowitz

Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

— Michelle Bachelet

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

— Betty Ford

“Longing for women other than your wife is not the root cause of infidelity”

— Betsy Wise

“(Latinx is the gender-neutral term we use to challenge the Spanish language’s gender binary.)”

— The Women's March Organizers

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

— Lana Del Rey

“A woman should be mindful that the key to one man's heart does not necessarily fits into the lock of another.”

— Dennis E. Adonis

I want to say that the way in which we understand gender actually changes the way we live gender.

— Judith Butler

“I think they're gentle," she mutters. "For Christ's sake, Ruth, they're aliens!" "I'm used to it," she says absently. - 'The Women…

— James Tiptree Jr

The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history.

— Maria Shriver

That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

Women often seem to have a fear of being 'found out'. Of thinking they've pulled the wool over their boss's eyes to…

— Emily Maitlis

We understand bringing girls into the tech space is about giving them skills to create social impact and change in their community.

— Kimberly Bryant

“The night is mine, my own time, to do with it as I will, as long as I am quiet. As long…

— Margaret Atwood

I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.

— Katori Hall

The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which…

— Julia Ward Howe

Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls was made all about drugs, when to most of us, that just meant pot and magic…

— Margot Kidder

“European culture, along with fake Christianity and capitalism, has transformed Western women into mere sex objects and showpieces of sexualized features. However,…

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

First of all, feminism is not man-hating, not man-berating. It is not saying we are better. It is just saying we want…

— Priyanka Chopra

I've seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, It is women who are the…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean,…

— Kim Gordon

We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't…

— Erma Bombeck

“Whatever is deeply, essentially female--the life in a woman's expression, the feel of her flesh, the shape of her breasts, the transformations…

— Naomi Wolf

Some male colleagues, just as in accountancy, had doubts about whether women could perform some roles. There was a sense that women…

— Cressida Dick

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

— Honore de Balzac

“The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.”

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

“Mary Wollstonecraft [said] 225 years ago, ‘I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Do you think a woman can give a man everything while still withholding her heart? We are not made that way! -…

— Karen Marie Moning

I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.

— Will Rogers

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

— Sally Ride

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

— Loretta Lynn

Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it cause him to wonder if women are necessary.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.

— Victoria Woodhull

Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.

— Christine Lagarde

We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.

— Judy Woodruff

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

— Gloria Steinem

Historically, most women who are powerful are seen as not being nice, even if they are.

— Kelly Cutrone

A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

— Bell Hooks

Women have much more instinct than men. There's no analyzing it.

— Agnes Moorehead