Feminism Quotes · Page 186

Empowering women isn’t just the right thing to do - it’s the smart thing to do.

— Barack Obama

Most women work not from yearning for fulfilment but yearning to pay the mortgage.

— Lionel Shriver

What Soft--Cherubic Creatures-- These Gentlewomen are-- One would as soon assault a Plush-- Or violate a Star

— Emily Dickinson

“Females were to be cherished and nurtured regardless of their species”

— Charlene Hartnady

We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.

— Brad Pitt

Feminists are asking the practical questions about how you want to live your life.

— Naomi Alderman

We need to overcome the stereotype that genders aren't fluid.

— Barbie Ferreira

I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

— Judith Butler

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

— Leyla Zana

“All these much-celebrated choices that we have, apparently, us modern women. There are no choices, only higher expectations.”

— Jo Furniss

Girls throughout the world should be able to make decisions about their own lives. If they have the opportunity to attend school,…

— Toni Garrn

I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today…

— Amber Heard

“Sexism is a combination of prejudice against persons based on their gender, combined with the privilege and power required to cause harm.”

— Bailey Poland

Women are really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.. Forty-six percent of women want to start their…

— Celinda Lake

What I see around the management team meetings and the conference tables I sit at is that there isn't that same comfort…

— Nancy Dubuc

“I still believe that [...] advancing the rights and opportunities of women and girls is the unfinished business of the twenty-first century.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

The word feminism has negative connotations for men. Rather, we are wanting to celebrate females and their confidence. There is no political…

— Nicole Scherzinger

My wish for the American woman is that she may always be an elevating influence-man's inspiration. Let him go forth to duty…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of…

— Germaine Greer

Might it not be that a great force that has always been thinking in terms of human needs, and that always will…

— Jeannette Rankin

A woman has a different type of sensitivity than a man. Their perspective of right and wrong is different and their perspective…

— Lee Corso

Womanists is what black feminists used to call themselves. Very much so. They were not the same thing. And also the relationship…

— Toni Morrison

I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the…

— Valerie Jarrett

One of the things I say to women a lot, specifically when Democrat women say to me, shouldn't there be a quota…

— Katie Walsh

When men cut jobs, they're seen as decisive. When women do, they're vindictive.

— Carly Fiorina

I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I…

— Carrie Underwood

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

— Bell Hooks

It is only when the hearts of the Women are in the mud, that the People are destroyed.

— Morning Star

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

— Storm Jameson

“She is both, hell fire and holy water. And the flavor you taste depends on how you treat her.”

— Sneha Pal

What SoftCherubic Creatures These Gentlewomen are One would as soon assault a Plush Or violate a Star

— Anonymous

Absolutely, yes, I'm proud of every woman, of every American, that makes her dreams come true.

— Ainsley Earhardt

Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate

— Alexandre Dumas Père

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

— Anonymous

“Women are complicated interestingly not interestingly complicated.”

— Anonymous

Women could get it done...That's why we need more women to run so we have more women in power to make decisions.

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

All patriarchal societies are either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war.

— George Carlin

What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.

— Cardi B

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

— Francois Truffaut