Feminism Quotes · Page 187

Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?

— Yeardley Smith

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

— Marianne Faithfull

Are there women in New York who are just there to make us feel bad about ourselves?

— Sarah Jessica Parker

It is outrageous that at this time in our country, women are still not paid as much as men.

— Valerie Jarrett

Whitney Cummings is a very dear friend of mine, and she is a huge advocate for women.

— Amanda de Cadenet

A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight

— Billy Crystal

For a woman to be able to stand on her own takes great power; for a woman to find a man who…

— Anonymous

The world changed on us. In a world where there were singles bars in every city, women weren't going to go out…

— Christie Hefner

The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it ­ -…

— Gloria Steinem

It can't only be men who are the focus of assault prevention. Women should be too. To say that that puts the…

— Laura Kipnis

“. . . the men expressed the shock of reading something geared exclusively to the feminine. It stunned them with an awareness…

— Sue Monk Kidd

It's difficult for me to work with women, because I find that direct references are made back to me too fast. Working…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a…

— William Westmoreland

In my experience, women are conditioned to expect and accept that life will not only let them down, but they themselves will…

— Toyah Willcox

“Every man is afraid of women as far as I can see,” said Julian, displaying an understanding of the universe far beyond…

— John Boyne

Well, speaking as a feminist, I'm glad that women can lead--uh, groups of unspeakable magical evil." "Yes," Alan said gravely. "It'd be…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

“Ultimately...woman's equality is not derived from any theory of human nature but rather from concepts of justice, equality and the integrity of…

— Jack Holland

“The Institute for Women’s Policy Research in the United States estimates that in 2015 women working full time earned only seventy-nine cents…

— Angela Saini

Women administer the home. They set the rules, enforce them, mete out justice for violations. Thus, like Congress, they legislate; like the…

— Margaret Chase Smith

Feminism is a choice, and if a woman does not want to be a feminist, that is her right, but it is…

— Roxane Gay

I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement…

— Adrienne Rich

Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own critical—and creative—thinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what…

— Todd Haynes

We must ensure that the men in our homes vote for a party that will work for the development of women.

— Kovai Sarala

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

— Ambrose Bierce

I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.

— Sheryl Sandberg

Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations

— Rad Hourani

Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.

— Kapil Sibal

“Men and women think about love differently. The main difference is that men simply don’t think about it.”

— Jarod Kintz

We want women to have options and not be forced into somebody else's idea of what their beauty needs ought to be.

— Richelieu Dennis

It's still a pretty sexist world out there and someone's got to stand up and say something.

— Eliza Dushku

“Woman is soulless and possesses neither ego nor individuality, personality nor freedom, character nor will.”

— Otto Weininger

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

— Roxane Gay

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey.

— Patrice O'Neal

Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together.

— Anna Quindlen

A woman [shouldn't] have to give a man her body to get his heart.

— Tony Gaskins

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

— Naomi Wolf