Feminism Quotes · Page 204

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

— Helen Rowland

“You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.

— Elizabeth Warren

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

— Clifford Geertz

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

— Anonymous

It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.

— Confucius

Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.

— Melinda Gates

Communities and countries and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women.

— Michelle Obama

Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take…

— Warren Farrell

Women see things that men dont. I guess its more important for a man to hear a woman, not just listen. The…

— Usher

“Women want equality until they think that acting hysterical can give them an edge. Then suddenly, they're the victims of their hormones.”

— Judith Arnold

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the…

— Camille Paglia

It doesn't matter if you are a man or woman; you need to stand up for yourself. If you have been abused,…

— Urvashi Rautela

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them. I don't get their point. I don't know why feminists have it out…

— Mel Gibson

By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and…

— Zainab Salbi

American feminists have generally stressed the ways in which men and women should be equal and have therefore tried to put aside…

— Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it…

— Dora Russell

“Perhaps most important, orthopedic surgeons knew that female assistants would pose less of a threat to their male-dominated professional authority than male…

— Beth Linker

In my book 'Women of Westminster,' a history of 100 years of women MPs, I was struck by how abuse of women…

— Rachel Reeves

There's this ridiculous idea that I'm a gender traitor because I'm not a feminist. I'm supposed to be part of a sisterhood:…

— Lauren Southern

“But here is a sad truth: Our world is full of men and women who do not like powerful women. We have…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity…

— Naomi Wolf

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

— Hillary Clinton

I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.

— Jill Scott

One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.

— Lisa Kleypas

I think women have not been terribly kind to other women for a very long time.

— Sarah Lancashire

I think the biggest issue for women in the workplace is men!

— Wendy Williams

Women are empowered, and they got better jobs than their husbands.

— Eddie Griffin

The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as…

— Laura Wilkinson

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

— Saul Bellow

Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.

— Steve Martin

The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on.

— Eileen Pollack

Feminism isn't about curating or policing the boundaries of womanhood.

— Ash Sarkar

As CEOs or board members, women are still underrepresented, and that gap is actually growing.

— Gillian Tans

Men and woman are not the same. Therefore there are different rules to live by...its not a double standard. Its life.

— Anonymous

The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.

— Faye Wattleton

“Saying a womaniser loves women is like saying a fighter ace loves his kills.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman