Feminism Quotes · Page 232

“To be taken seriously, she takes herself seriously. In the manifest of dreams, dreams imagine her.”

— Cheryl Pallant

“I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man’s and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to…

— Caroline George

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

— Melinda Gates

At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.

— Isabel Allende

“By granting women the right to vote in 1869, the Wyoming Territory took a great leap forward”

— Susan Denning

“Women wearing dark dresses were giving out food and water to the men in line.”

— Mary Pope Osborne

Most men can please a woman physically, but a real man knows how to please a woman emotionally and physically.

— SONYA PARKER

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

— Roseanne Barr

“Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen;…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My definition of feminism is a social, political, economic system by which all genders are valued, respected, and can live dignified lives.

— Alicia Garza

“Usually, Dagmar didn’t bother herself with right and wrong. She left that to men who received their power simply by being born…

— G.A. Aiken

I, like many of the other women who made history and dared to step up to lead since the 2018 midterms, know…

— Maya Wiley

No man is born believing that he has dominion over women. Instead, this view is handed down from generation to generation and…

— Cyril Ramaphosa

I think that because we have these big female pop stars, people forget that women and marginalized people are so underrepresented in…

— Justin Tranter

Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the…

— Beth Simone Noveck

Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.

— Sander Levin

What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which…

— Jane Caputi

There's so many women that need to be inspired, encouraged to go after their dreams, their goals, their aspirations. Because we all…

— Laila Ali

A real woman understands that man was created to be the initiator, and she operates on that premise. This is primarily a…

— Elisabeth Elliot

“I think now that this is the great division between people. There are people who find life hard and those who find…

— Hilary Mantel

“The 1970s and 1980s: feminism, androgyny, modernism, aesthetics In the 1970s and 1980s, Woolf studies expanded in a number of directions, most…

— Jane Goldman

“When our mother is seen only as the one-dimensional Mary of modern times, instead of the great dual force of life and…

— Ana Castillo

I see certain parallels between the debate over feminism where some women argue that women should not be forced to stay at…

— Ari Shapiro

“The First Mobile, if one is sent, must be warned that unless he is very self-assured, or senile, his pride will suffer.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

— Susie Bright

How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!

— Marie Corelli

[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.

— Betty Friedan

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or…

— Angelina Jolie

The best thing about the battle between the sexes is often the sex between the battles.

— Mardy Grothe

Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time.

— Sally Quinn

Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.

— Anita Borg

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... . Better to die than to live in slavery.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

That's what 'LM5' is about, empowering women to be who they are.

— Perrie Edwards

When the woman lower their standards the Men followed and lower thier's to..

— Frenchqueen

If we can't respect a women then we don't have the right to call ourself men.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”

— Sojourner Truth

I want the women I work with to find the entry point to where their healing is.

— Tarana Burke

No matter what anybody says, we can't have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.

— Warren Farrell

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

— Ruth Benedict