Feminism Quotes · Page 238

“she was too much of a warrior to be considered a princess she never cared for the crown she preferred a sword”

— R.H. Sin

Until all women are lesbians, there will be no true political revolution.

— Jill Johnston

The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

— John Stuart Mill

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Women do love each other; this whole women-against-each other, 'Dynasty' thing... we're not all after each other.

— Bonnie Somerville

It's important to try to get people to think about women's wellness.

— Billie Jean King

Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word 'woman' and raise it specially?

— Ding Ling

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out…

— Taslima Nasrin

“And, and—we think very differently of the nature of women, if they can imagine a woman so very soon capable of returning…

— Jane Austen

What is male and female? Is it just a physical condition? No. The energy runs very, very differently in a woman than…

— Frederick Lenz

We need more women in positions of power so that women's issues are thought of more, because a room full of men…

— Anoushka Shankar

“Men need to whisper secrets, Lady. That’s what makes them different from us – they need to share secrets, but we women…

— James Clavell

We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“Just imagine if we, the normal girls, stood united as an enormous, hysterical and proud army. We would be unstoppable.”

— Emily Clarkson

It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she…

— Anna Godbersen

I feel like as a teenager making music, I had a lot of internalised misogyny, a need to be one of the…

— Ashnikko

You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Diversity and inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities in science should not affect the way education is handled or research is carried…

— Mildred Dresselhaus

“Why isn't every woman a feminist? Feminism tells a tale of female injury, but the average woman in heterosexual intimacy knows that…

— Sandra Lee Bartky

“So weak are their [Men's] intellectuals, and so untuned are their organs to the voice of reason, that custom makes more absolute…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

“Jesus treats patriarchy the way he treats much else of the law and custom of his time: ambiguously, suggestively, and sometimes subversively,…

— John G. Stackhouse Jr

I have never felt oppressed by women or that feminism is a problem. I do think boys find it hard to like…

— Matt Haig

Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill…

— Jessica Valenti

It's so great that women are being allowed to be heroes in big things.

— Rebecca Hall

The strength of women is the pretense of weakness, and the weakness of men is the pretense of strength.

— Anonymous

I think women are much stronger than men in society. We take more risks than they do in general.

— Nicki Minaj

The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?

— M. Carey Thomas

Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone

— Egyptian Proverb

“how 'man is the extension of woman 'occurred to me is so starnge”

— Makarand Fulzele

The key to economic security - to food security in Africa is empowering the women.

— Judith Rodin

Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.

— Michael Hutchence

To give women more opportunity, women's empowerment is very, very close to my heart.

— Masai Ujiri

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Culturally we're shown an impossible fantasy of how women should present themselves, how they should behave with men.

— Stacy Martin

What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?

— Mahatma Gandhi

In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.

— Weili Dai

Being taken seriously as a young woman is the biggest hurdle as I grow older.

— Petra Collins

I think we should have equal work for equal pay for women all over the world.

— Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters

We've been socialised and told that there is a way to describe people, and that way is by their gender or their…

— Asia Kate Dillon