Feminism Quotes · Page 209

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— Anonymous

Don't be a woman that needs a man, be the woman a man needs.

— Minda

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

— James Joyce

I am often asked how does being a woman affect my work at Affectiva. Honestly, I don't think it does.

— Rana el Kaliouby

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.

— Christoph Martin Wieland

As individuals, we professional women need to learn how to raise our hands and ask for more throughout our careers.

— Caroline Ghosn

If women speak their mind, then they are termed as trouble makers or attention seekers.

— Nushrat Bharucha

There is more to life than saas bahu issues with women being portrayed as petty characters and their own worst enemies.

— Saba Qamar

Women must commit to use our power-to on our own behalf so we can translate it into the power to help others…

— Gloria Feldt

I think everyone should be creative in some way, otherwise you have no self-respect. That's why I believe in women working.

— Barbi Benton

I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to…

— Jane Campion

Success in math and the hard sciences, far from being a matter of gender, is almost entirely dependent on culture - a…

— Eileen Pollack

A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the…

— Gabrielle Union

To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It…

— J. B. Pritzker

“Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man enough will save the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough, and women are afraid they might be considered only women.”

— Theodor Reik

Human-resources departments in corporations across the country are pervaded by the view that the corporation's white-male employees are incapable of fairly judging…

— Heather Mac Donald

“Quite how a heterosexual couple hiring a female cleaner ends up as a betrayal of feminism isn't terribly clear- unless you believe…

— Caitlin Moran

Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about…

— Steven Pinker

“Alarms go off in my head every time the with-us-or-against-us argument of “just lighten up, us ladies are a team” gets brought…

— Anonymous

A man cannot tell whether a woman is in love with him or his security blanket until she is financially and psychologically…

— Warren Farrell

It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with…

— Zadie Smith

“If they [the mothers] use different vocabularies, they may share a postmodern feminist "body politics" - in this instance an awareness that…

— Linda Blum

“It’s our work, our job, the most important gig of all: to make a place that belongs to us, a structure composed…

— Cheryl Strayed

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

— Camille Paglia

There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous.

— Frederick Lenz

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

— Victoria Woodhull

“It doesn't matter what women wear. No matter what, someone's going to have a problem with it.”

— Kaya Carvajal

Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race.

— Keir Hardie

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.

— Friedrich Engels

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

— George Eliot

“Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men.”

— Oscar Wilde

There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.

— Dru Pagliassotti

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

— Barbara De Angelis

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

— Lewis Carroll

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.

— Gloria Steinem

“For men rise or fall based entirely on what the women in their lives demand of them.”

— Kim Wright

We need to stand together with all of the victims [ of sexual harassment] and make sure they are not silenced.

— Gretchen Carlson

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

— Gloria Steinem

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

— Ovid