Feminism Quotes · Page 236

“Why should women accept this picture of a half-life, instead of a share in the whole of human destiny?”

— Betty Friedan

Ooh, women of a caliber. Only seen in magazines and calendars.

— Ne-yo

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

— Margaret Cavendish

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.

— Phyllis Schlafly

Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigerias growth and development.

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

We had like a jolt of women in country, and it seems like we're just kind of there now.

— Miranda Lambert

Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.

— Mark Twain

Violence against women is an everyday reality, act now, always, and forever before its too late.

— The Forgotten

Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle…

— Cornel West

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

— Tarja Halonen

I am not a Jew in the synagogue and a feminist in the world. I am a Jewish feminist and a feminist…

— Judith Plaskow

A women who understands the problems of running a home will be nearest to understanding the problems of running a country!

— Anonymous

“Billie knew all. And, terrible though the fact is as an indictment of the male sex, when a woman knows all, there…

— P.G. Wodehouse

Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in…

— Gloria Steinem

A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in…

— Taraji P. Henson

What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took…

— Robert Ardrey

“These discussions may feel like “playing” to you, but to many people in the room, it’s their lives you are “playing” with.…

— Anonymous

I think that the female workforce is so valuable. And if we're going to champion women in the workforce, which our economy…

— Caterina Scorsone

You are wrong when you say there is no power in being a woman. When I think of my mother and the…

— Alison Goodman

“When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those…

— Marilyn French

The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the…

— Arundhati Roy

There’s a saying in Africa, if you give a woman empowerment, you empower a community, you empower men, you empower man. When…

— Danai Gurira

You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as…

— Beyonce Knowles

“As an associate at McKinsey & Company, my first assignment was on a team that consisted of a male senior engagement manager…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

— Clement of Alexandria

The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are.

— Edith Stein

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Method Man is a rough, rugged street dude, but all the girls love him.

— Rza

There are lots of kinds of feminism, but ultimately it's about letting people be human beings

— Bonnie Greer

Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.

— Kim Hyesoon

As a woman candidate myself, I know how important it was to be encouraged to run, to think outside of the box.

— Elise Stefanik

Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present

— Publilius Syrus

Any story about a powerful woman owning herself in any way is automatically deemed feminist.

— Madeline Brewer

While men rule the world they need the military, women should only need secret agents ;)

— Adrea

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them,…

— Elizabeth Berg

“I have seen enormous changes. I have not seen enough change. I, too, can hardly wait.”

— Kay Mills

Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Women have been denied access to advanced methods of self discovery throughout the ages.

— Frederick Lenz