Feminism Quotes · Page 219

The scope of the history of women is so underplayed and not told as often as it should be.

— Tamlyn Tomita

I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.

— Samina Baig

If the world was taking care of women, women would take care of the world.

— Jane Roberts

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

— George Eliot

“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”

— Roman Payne

Women, I believe, learn to think on their feet, to cope with change and survive.

— Hazel Hawke

I think that women are afraid to be vulnerable because they think it makes them look weak.

— Julia Michaels

The woman is the reflection of her man. If you love her to the point of madness, she will become it

— Brad Pitt

The [Wal-Mart] corporate culture lagged way behind many other American corporations in terms of making progress on women's issues, and that had…

— Liza Featherstone

Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a…

— Dorothea Dix

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all…

— Ann Oakley

Beta males and females historically fare poorly in anchor positions, and whoever has the dominate, or more alpha, personality will always win…

— Dana Loesch

I have noticed a common denominator among my smart and successful single friends, who tend to over-analyze and underestimate the opposite sex…

— Lauren Iungerich

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not…

— Pedro Almodovar

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice…

— Bella Abzug

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

— Nancy Friday

The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second,…

— Plato

Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did…

— Caitlin Moran

War is not a computer-generated missile striking a digital map. War is the color of earth as it explodes in our faces,…

— Zainab Salbi

Having expressed the rage against the laws and conditions that oppressed them - maybe even excess anger in the beginning was directed…

— Betty Friedan

Because men have a history, it is difficult for them to imagine what it is like to grow up without one, or…

— Judy Chicago

The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their…

— Edward Abbey

“People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that…

— Mary Gordon

There is a true feminist movement in Buddhism that relates to the goddess Tārā. Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation,…

— Dalai Lama

“Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats”

— Jude Morgan

Women empowering other women.They get the psycho-social support. They become part of a community.

— Annie Lennox

Because, Cat, it’s the feminine persuasion that’s always the deadliest.

— Jeaniene Frost

The role of a woman to make his man happy, but the role of a man is to satisfied his woman.

— Katrina

I think women get a little crazier when they run in packs. They want to outdo each other.

— William Chappell

I'm continuing to do what I can to empower and inspire other women.

— Camila Alves

“Never has it been inappropriate for a girl to wear a red dress.”

— Caroline George

There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.

— Agnes Denes

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love…

— Woody Allen

America may be the home of feminism, but I don't think the electorate will allow a woman to be president.

— Lydia Hearst

When women and girls rise, their communities and their countries rise with them

— Michelle Obama

If you need ownership and responsibility from core workers, patriarchy can't get you there.

— Peter Block

The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy.

— Ani DiFranco

Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

“Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.”

— Euripides