Feminism Quotes · Page 208

Nations are more successful when their women are successful.

— Barack Obama

Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old.

— Shelagh Delaney

“In 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing country to grant women the vote.”

— Angela Saini

I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs.

— Jo Grimond

In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.

— Samina Baig

“a man cannot embrace a woman’s faults until he loves her. A woman embraces the faults and then falls in love.”

— Kathryn Smith

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

— Elizabeth Blackwell

Women who say it's not O.K. are [interpreted as] wet blankets or sore losers.

— Helen Hunt

“There is a breed of men out there, you know, who are attracted to strong women. They just don’t know what to…

— Lisa Gardner

Assess and then decide whether women who are in active politics and public life, like men, whether in this process they may…

— Yogi Adityanath

For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn…

— Sylvia Ann Hewitt

A community is not likely to be overthrown where woman fulfills her mission, for by the power of her noble heart, she…

— John Angell James

Men know so little about us women. We've a weakness, it is true, for those who charm us, but we always come…

— Henry Becque

Almost all the United Commonwealth presidents have been female. It has been argued that women are less aggressive, more maternal, and thus…

— Joelle Charbonneau

Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States…

— Mary Livermore

.Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be…

— Adrienne Rich

“Despite the occasional backlash, I’ll continue to speak on this topic until people stop assuming that this debate is about whether or…

— Mary Jennings Hegar

I think there's just an inherent burden of being alive and being a woman. No man would ever admit that, but I…

— Rashida Jones

“I shall not vote for Sen. Obama and it will not be because he—like me and like all of us—carries African genes.…

— Christopher Hitchens

The #MeToo movement doesn't belong to Republicans or the Democrats. The #MeToo movement belongs to women who are having the courage to…

— Ben Sasse

Liberalism in various guises - feminism, the sexual revolution, gay activism - has been at war with marriage and family for several…

— Mona Charen

Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their…

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the…

— Sylvia Plath

Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed. Then we had the right to speak…

— Nawal El Saadawi

Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished.

— Mukhtar Ma'i

There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't…

— Lauren DeStefano

Long ago when I went to college, campuses were about 70 percent male, and until 1970, it was still nearly 60 percent.

— Phyllis Schlafly

You don't have that many women in the industry so the lane is wide open.

— Ludacris

When it comes to Hillary Clinton, it is really about mobilizing and energizing women voters to turn out to the polls.

— Stephanie Schriock

“talk that TED later named “Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders”). Very”

— Sheryl Sandberg

It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.

— Geena Davis

There are more good women in the world than there are men worthy of them!

— Margaret Way

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

— Robin Morgan

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

— Caitlin Moran

We don’t have enough young, female antiheroes. We don’t accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men,

— Natalie Dormer

The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Feminism, to me, is nothing more and nothing less than the belief in equality for women.

— Kodie Shane

We're going to have more women run for office. We can shift what's going on in Congress.

— Rashida Tlaib

I always believe, as a woman, it's powerful to be able to pull your own body weight and be able to defend…

— Joan Smalls

...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

— Pope John Paul II