Feminism Quotes · Page 224

“A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Security for women needs to focussed on every section of the society.

— Soha Ali Khan

Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.

— Margaret Way

If you believe in equality, you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you.

— Emma Watson

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

— Walter Bagehot

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world.

— Jessica Valenti

Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

— Adah Isaacs Menken

You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

“The more women argue, loudly, against feminism, the more they both prove it exists and that they enjoy its hard-won privileges.”

— Caitlin Moran

How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which…

— Elizabeth Aston

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men…

— Maureen Reagan

Here's something women need to stop doing to other women: We need to stop asking each other to lower our fees, cut…

— Gina Barreca

Men have higher body temperatures than women. If your heating goes out in winter, I recommend sleeping next to a man. Men…

— Rita Rudner

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as…

— Naomi Wolf

It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their…

— Anna Friel

There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and…

— Lynne Tillman

Culture does not make people - people make culture. So if it is in fact true that the full humanity of women…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The more women and people of color who find positions of influence, the more women and people of color who will find…

— Nina Jacobson

When I had a baby, I didn't leave the second floor for six months. I nursed my babies. I was a full-time…

— Phyllis Schlafly

I'm really putting my life towards helping women to invest, and there's a circular reference here because if women can invest and…

— Sallie Krawcheck

It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem…

— Hilary Mantel

“When women have so absorbed the disease of sexism that they themselves can inflict it on each other, we clearly have a…

— Erica Jong

“You don't have to be a channel for every free choice denied. Every porcelain bride with no property rights, you don't have…

— Lauren Zuniga

We don't often get to see women be powerful and not play the victim.

— Neve Campbell

There's a lot of pressure on young women. We need more honest women who are willing to talk about their struggles.

— Alexa Ray Joel

“The greater part of a men who speak ill of women are speaking of a certain woman.”

— Remy de Gourmont

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

— Carly Fiorina

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

— A. S. Byatt

If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

Across all fields, women are generally paid 21 percent less than men.

— Jennifer Lawrence

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

The main trouble with women is that they will just not put the seat back up again.

— Martin Clunes

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

— Rachel Kushner

“Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.”

— Ransom Riggs

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

— Ian Mckellen

“To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In 1994, the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was signed into law to prevent and combat domestic violence.

— Conner Eldridge

“I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!”

— Oscar Wilde

I think it's important for women to be around other women and learn from each other.

— Beyonce Knowles