Feminism Quotes · Page 229

Part of the job is to find out what they need. #MeToo is about helping people find those resources.

— Tarana Burke

Things were changing fast by that time, women were beginning to come to the ball parks. We had to stop cussing.

— Honus Wagner

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.

— Romola Garai

“In a way, women were asking for men to be poets and driving, passionate lovers at the same time.”

— Robert James Waller

There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Oh, Myrtle, don't be didactic. It's not becoming in a young girl. Besides, men loathe it.”

— Veta Louise Simmons

We women aren't good at hints. We like solid declarations of love and forever.

— Jude Deveraux

On a daily basis, I think it's really important to be conscious of gender-based discrimination - which presents in sometimes more, but…

— Cory Booker

There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness…

— Alphonse Daudet

We can't create a shift in normalised attitudes and behaviours without everybody on board, so not being sexist isn't enough - get…

— Laura Bates

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer…

— Madeleine Albright

When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.

— Joy Bryant

“Come on, Marianna! Women are like Priuses—although we can go for miles and miles without it, sometimes we still need to get…

— Alexandra Brenton

“This is a battle that we will win. Because women are wittier, brighter, stronger and braver than a misogynistic and patriarchal world…

— Laura Bates

Obviously it's true that as you go up the ranks, the number of women starts to decline. Whether that's because of 'self-deselection'…

— Marianne Lake

I want the government in the DRC and everywhere where gender inequality is a problem, it's not only an African problem, to…

— Margot Wallstrom

I don't understand executives that pit women against each other, the fact that they brought in 'Body of Proof,' Dana Delaney is…

— Julianna Margulies

It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we…

— Dacia Maraini

“And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost…

— Virginia Woolf

“The truth is I don't give a damn why anyone has an abortion. I believe unconditionally in the right of people with…

— Lindy West

“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make…

— Charlotte Brontë

Domestic violence is often ignored as it usually happens behind closed doors and it can seem easier not to get involved. Yet,…

— John Nettles

If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but…

— Anonymous

“the name of the husband is one of the strongest insignia of patriarchal power”

— Jacqueline Rose

Women spend more time thinking about what men think than men do actually thinking.

— Anonymous

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

— Gloria Steinem

Women all around the world express themselves in different ways.

— Sisqo

Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves.

— Jan Neruda

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. —MARK TWAIN”

— Nicholas D. Kristof

There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been…

— Eva Figes

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could…

— Sheila Heti

“The more people insist that feminism has won, the more they blind themselves to its remaining foes.”

— Ada Palmer

Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power

— Andrea Dworkin

The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Women are delicate creatures at the best of times moved by desires unknown to the men who place trust in them.”

— Melvin Musera

The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.

— Elizabeth Warren

Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

— Euripides

The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy.

— Ellery Queen