Feminism Quotes · Page 207

“There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work.”

— Caroline Criado-Perez

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

— Gloria Steinem

The problem with most men is they're assholes. The problem with most women is they put up with those assholes.

— Cher

After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.

— Nancy Pelosi

“Nine women possess the same rights as a man... to learning and knowledge.”

— Kathleen Krull by Eliza Orzeskowa

We're going forward until we have an equitable and safe world for women.

— Mira Sorvino

“As feministas querem reduzir a mulher a um macho mal-acabado.”

— Nelson Rodrigues

Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]

— George Herbert

Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be…

— Lillie Devereux Blake

If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love…

— George Orwell

“A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of…

— Andrea Dworkin

A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to…

— Hillary Clinton

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them…

— Joan Baez

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive…

— Helene Deutsch

Women are starting something like twice as many companies as men, but the money is primarily going to companies started by men.

— Anita Borg

Some women who are on top of their game have come out in the open about sexual harassment, what publicity do they…

— Ishita Dutta

You have to have your personal life, and at the end of the day I think what people forget, especially when you're…

— Jessica Valenti

A real groupie is someone who loves the music and wants to do it with the guys who make it and someone…

— Pamela Des Barres

It's only that we live in a patriarchal society, and therefore, the word 'feminism' has to be used as a counter to…

— Kalki Koechlin

“Adolescent girls discover that it is impossible to be both feminine and adult. Psychologist I. K. Broverman’s now classic study documents this…

— Mary Pipher

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them…

— Mary Wesley

“Why is it a shame for me to cause them to die and try to exterminate them, tell me? You did not…

— Guy de Maupassant

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women--the quality of shifting from child to woman, theseeming…

— Lillian B. Rubin

There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism.

— Ani DiFranco

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Hopefully with a woman President the double standard will slowly begin to wane.

— Tinashe

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

— Alphonse Karr

We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.

— Shami Chakrabarti

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

— George Bernard Shaw

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.

— Tamora Pierce

I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.

— Roxane Gay

Any female who can hold her own in a male dominated environment is impressive.

— Edith Bowman

The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable

— Jane Campion

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

When I took over, I thought that I must do something for the empowerment of women.

— Pratibha Patil

Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

A woman who would steal your love when your love is all you really have isnt much of a woman.

— Johnny Depp

“There is no end to the cruelty of men threatened by strong women." - Mr. Nancy”

— Neil Gaiman