Feminism Quotes · Page 242

You cannot forget about your femininity. You don't have to compete with men in that respect.

— Carolina Herrera

It takes a woman to admit her mistakes but it takes an even better woman to stop making them .

— Anonymous

There is no such thing as a women that doesn't nag if you're lucky you'll find one that doesn't nag as much…

— My Grandad

It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

— Catharine MacKinnon

You don't have to be in the power business to be a powerful woman.

— Geisha Williams

Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.

— Anonymous

“Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Honestly, I do believe in the power of women supporting each other.

— Amanda de Cadenet

And you go into a supermarket and every tabloid is like, ‘Pregnant and Alone!’ Stuck in the 1950s ideal of how a…

— Zooey Deschanel

For women, we intend to do something in a noble and missionary spirit... We mean to appeal to their intellects... and we…

— Frank Crowninshield

Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as…

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but…

— Ashton Kutcher

“don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for…

— W. Somerset Maugham

In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout…

— Emma Willard

“He’d concluded that not only should females have the right to vote, they should probably be governing the whole darn country.”

— Debra Holland

The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the…

— Dale Spender

I view the prostitute as one of the few women who is totally in control of her fate, totally in control of…

— Camille Paglia

When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore…

— Marjane Satrapi

But research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills…

— Dee Dee Myers

“Not only are the gender overlaps large, but the gender differences are actually inflated at the outset. One danger of studying gaming…

— Nick Yee

There's so many gatekeepers to getting in front of showrunners or executives. If we pull those middlemen out, and we get women…

— Allison Schroeder

That was very much ahead of its time back in the 1880s and, not surprisingly, it was met with some resistance. [I]f…

— Andrea Jung

Men are not as sophisticated as women. They're not as mature as women. They're not as connected with their emotions as women...There's…

— Adam Levine

The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings…

— Ashley Montagu

Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

— Karin Slaughter

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism,

— Shashi Deshpande

The fight for women's rights is all our fight. It always has been.

— Jonathan Capehart

Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.

— Ayrton Senna

“...the women are drinking and laughing inside somewhere, Wallis guesses, as manless as these men are without women.”

— Sheri Holman

I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.

— Jackee Harry

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

— Juvenal

A nation that sends its women to fight its wars is not worth defending.

— Pat Buchanan

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

— Virginia Woolf

There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.

— Martin Luther

“Inside every man there is a potential woman and inside every woman resides a potential man.”

— John Maxwell Taylor

The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion.

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Don't get consumed by the false idea that being a woman is a disadvantage.

— Esra Saydam

The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

— Ellen Barkin

“Men and women relate and understand things differently – period!”

— Art Hochberg