Feminism Quotes · Page 197

Women feel that the 'too eager to please' are the men who are probably insecure.

— Mazher

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

— Voltaire

For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

— Robert Briffault

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

— Leo Tolstoy

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.

— Liz Carpenter

If you're not funding female-founded firms, you're leaving behind half your talent.

— Dylan Taylor

The men were so busy looking at the women, they didn't drink.

— Hank Leslie

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

— Gloria Steinem

When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a…

— J. Cole

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the…

— Crystal Eastman

If women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms, or to nibble at any side of the apple of…

— Anna Julia Cooper

“In a story, you must always listen for the voice you cannot hear, the one that has been ignored or silenced. In…

— Patricia Storace

Especially in our society, for a woman to be ambitious and controlling, that's a negative. Whereas me as a person, I don't…

— Kim Hawthorne

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits…

— Plato

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but…

— Anna Howard Shaw

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Women, know your worth! If a man is violent, your worth is clearly in your astounding potential to be his personal, unpaid,…

— Anonymous

“When the first professional computer programmers were all women during World War II, and only 12 percent of computer science degrees were…

— Nick Yee

I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Feminists have convinced themselves that any difference between men and women is oppression and that women in the United States are an…

— Phyllis Schlafly

When we look at the pay of men and women who do work equal hours, two discoveries are quite astonishing: --When women…

— Warren Farrell

I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building,…

— Margaret Hamburg

For a while they wore suits or pants suits, and pants suits are kind of a women's appropriation of male costume, work…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

More education for women. More jobs for women. More equal opportunities for women. More women to be taken seriously. And I think…

— Lady Gaga

As you think about the workforce of the future, women and minorities are such an important part of that future.

— Cathy Engelbert

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely "tolerated", they are valued.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

— Andrew Young

I think that the 21st century will be feminine, that it's women who will, perhaps, find a way out for this world.

— Brigitte Macron

Beyonce, Stevie Nicks, Ani DiFranco, Cardi B - Women tell awesome stories.

— Justin Tranter

Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

— Clare Short

Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.

— Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

“There’s far greater awareness now – and the great thing is women know there’s help available.”

— The Guardian

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

— Benjamin Disraeli

When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

— Melinda Gates

“Liberia FEMINISM: Our women should be our HOPE, not those who we exploit for our own gains.”

— Henry Johnson Jr

“For difficult women, who should be celebrated for their very nature”

— Roxane Gay

A man is already half way in love with a women who listens to him.

— Raquel

It's really hard for a lot of men to have the woman accomplishing more than them.

— Amy Schumer

“As that great philosopher, Mary Poppins, once said, 'A spoonful of sugar makes the feminism go down.”

— Irene Ziegler

The bickering and fighting and hating that women do with each other - it's going to kill us as a race of…

— Chaka Khan