Feminism Quotes · Page 192

Any woman who calls herself a post-feminist should keep her Wonderbra and burn her brains.

— Kathy Lette

There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.

— Anita Borg

“Besides, when I look around me at the men, I feel that God never meant us women to be too particular.”

— Marie Jenney Howe

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of…

— Hedi Slimane

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.

— Callie Khouri

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

— Harriet Harman

To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise.

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

Women never really care to face the truth when their hearts are involved.

— Anthony Hopkins

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just…

— Etta James

I don't understand that about Taylor Swift, or about Joan [Mitchell] - how can she not say she's a feminist?! People don't…

— Ronee Blakley

The risk of reputational damage, causing good female talent to decline to work for a firm based on its disclosure, is the…

— Nicky Morgan

“Men have committed the greatest crime against women. Insidiously, violently, they have led them to hate women, to be their own enemies,…

— Hélène Cixous

“According to a 2007 report from the National Bureau of Economic Research, “As women have gained more freedom, more education, and more…

— Suzanne Venker

Sometimes a lot of us men think we are doing everything for the woman we love, but there is an aspect of…

— Shahrukh Khan

I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances…

— Kate Adie

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking…

— Russell Hoban

But in these few moments that we have here on Earth, are we going to torture ourselves? Or are we going to…

— Shailene Woodley

“Girls, here's the truth about the Ban Bossy campaign: It's being spearheaded by a privileged group of elite feminists who have a…

— Michelle Malkin

“Stat Watch 67 words In a survey 91% of university staff members said they had been ignored, avoided, shut out of conversations,…

— Anonymous

The status of women in the workplace has improved dramatically since 1972. More women today have good jobs, the gap between the…

— James O'Toole

Wall Street is not the right career for everyone or for every woman. That is clear. But it can't be wrong for…

— Stephanie Ruhle

Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women…

— Ban Ki-moon

“Betty Rollin says it best when she writes: “I know the theory that says men are as scared as we are and…

— Valerie Young

“...I know how she must have felt. Pressure to be in charge of the world. So much responsibility. The whole world on…

— Tiffany Reisz

Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.

— Walter Scott

In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.

— Rebekah Brooks

I want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female.

— Twiggy

Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“And if he presses, tell him it’s a female matter. That stops any question.”

— Elizabeth Hoyt

Most women who have done something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone.

— Francoise Gilot

the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.

— Emily James Smith Putnam

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

— Oliver Herford

“To be rapable, a position that is social not biological, defines what a woman is.”

— Catharine A. MacKinnon

There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.

— Benjamin Disraeli

So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.

— Rosalind Wiseman

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

— Hedy Lamarr

. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

— M. Carey Thomas

“Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle.”

— Diana Palmer

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.

— Bill Cosby

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

— Simone de Beauvoir