Feminism Quotes · Page 228

I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.

— Carine Roitfeld

It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing

— Alexandre Dumas Père

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance.”

— Jeanette Winterson

I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.

— Nipsey Russell

Investing in women is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do.

— Hillary Clinton

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

— Margaret Fuller

I really respect women like that, women who just kind of take the bull by the horns and do it how they…

— Lainey Wilson

“The unpleasant image of the feminists today resembles less the feminists themselves than the image fostered by the interests who so bitterly…

— Betty Friedan

We have to change this idea that women are only supposed to work in the house... Women should go out and be…

— Malala Yousafzai

“Some women feel loved if you do the dishes without being reminded; some men feel loved if you’ll play a video game…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of…

— Charlotte Brontë

Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to…

— Margaret Mead

Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still…

— John Updike

Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.

— H. L. Mencken

We need policies for long-term security that are designed by women, focused on women, executed by women not at the expense of…

— Angelina Jolie

I would like to say that I'm a walking poster board for feminism and women's liberation, but there are things that I…

— Viola Davis

The meeting [in San Antonio of the National Women's Political Caucus] featured a cattle show at which a herd of Democratic candidates-…

— Daniel Seligman

By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than…

— Nellie L. McClung

“Statistically, domestic violence issues affected one in every four women and one in every six men and led on average to two…

— Sarah Flint

Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most…

— Sheila Jeffreys

I mean, if it's worth a cover story that men and women are born different, what in the world must you believe…

— Rush Limbaugh

“I’d loved women who were old and who were young; those extra kilos and large rumps, and others so thin there was…

— Roman Payne

The most important thing is for women not to tear other women down. Everyone in our division is helping each other, and…

— Charlotte Flair

“This is the truth, Kate. I don’t understand why every man in the world isn’t in love with you.”

— Noelle Adams

I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.

— Jennifer Aniston

Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.

— Samuel Johnson

There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall.

— Henry Hyde

I want to make the work space more dignified and safe for women.

— Parvathy

“Maybe it frightened them, to admit that a woman could be master of her fate.”

— Nenia Campbell

It is important that women have the opportunity to balance different priorities at different stages in their career.

— Cathy Engelbert

if you men only knew how we love a man who can be just a woman to us sometimes!

— Ellen Buckingham Mathews

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

— Anonymous

Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms.

— De Finod

What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.

— John Stuart Mill

Patriarchy is so ingrained in our psyche, that most us propagate it in small ways even without realizing.

— Shoojit Sircar

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.

— Laura Schlessinger

My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.

— Starhawk

Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.

— Matthew Perry