Feminism Quotes · Page 195

“Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.”

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently

— Indra Nooyi

There's more women who can play like me if not better and we just need more recognition really.

— Fallon Sherrock

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

— Roseanne Barr

People want real. And there are a lot of women out there doing that.

— Elle King

“It sounds like the men are men and the women are women.”               Ava’s”

— Lauren Gilley

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.

— Pamela Anderson

I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.

— Georgie Anne Geyer

“It can be fun to feel exceptional--to be the loophole woman, to have a whole power thing, to be an honorary man.…

— Ariel Levy

“Studies repeatedly show that if you attended a women’s college, you are likely to have higher self-esteem and more intellectual self-confidence than…

— Valerie Young

We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women…

— Salman Rushdie

“At my old school I was vice president of this club called GRIT,” Lucy tells us. “It stood for Girls Respecting and…

— Jennifer Mathieu

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and…

— Adrienne Rich

For the most part, I've sat on the sidelines over the years during the endless debates about how we need to do…

— Michael Arrington

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no…

— Mark Shields

“If anyone's interested in the alleviation of poverty... the only thing we know definitely works is giving women control over their own…

— Christopher Hitchens

Investing in women, helping women to achieve their dreams, sending young girls to college. Trying to train young girls to be leaders.…

— Maria Shriver

For women in my lifetime things have changed quite a bit, but not enough. They have only changed for women that have…

— Isabel Allende

I think there is a need to have more women running companies, but you can't... appoint women just to appoint women, just…

— Cynthia Carroll

All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut;…

— Laurence Sterne

I grew up in a world where authority was female. I never thought to call myself a feminist because of branding. I…

— Trevor Noah

Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in…

— Hanna Rosin

“The very notion that beauty is something we need to be protected from is insulting. [...] When you watch Olympic athletes in…

— Ted Chiang

Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even…

— Valerie Plame

I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

— Ice T

Different women feel empowered in different ways, and it's not right to tell someone what they can and cannot do.

— Paige Spiranac

Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes.

— Janice Kaplan

Make education more accessible to women - all women, not just Americans.

— Carolyn Porco

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.

— Sally Kempton

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“That's how a woman wins a mans heart, by making him think that he amuses her.”

— Louis de Bernières

“hold on to 16 as long as you can. changes coming round real soon, make us women and men.”

— John Mellencamp

This women's moment to embrace the power-to for good in life and leadership.

— Gloria Feldt

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

— Doris Lessing

When you think about it, girls and women are the largest market in the world.

— Tae Yoo

There is not an Aquarius woman in the world who wants to be told what to do.

— Anonymous

“Admit to yourself women are equal. In fact go ahead and say it. They're superior. Nuff said.”

— Dennis James

Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote.

— Susan Jane Gilman

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway.

— Lord Chesterfield