Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have… — Martha Griffiths Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to locate the cliche of the 'strong woman' exclusively in the present day, as if those many women who… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
Women are much tougher than men in so many ways. I would say, mentally, they are stronger. In terms of physical pressure,… — Rituparna Sengupta Copy Share Image
There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
“I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Sure, sexism is not confined to the Conservatives. Harriet Harman has suggested that Gordon Brown didn't make her deputy prime minister because… — Layla Moran Copy Share Image
There are many structural changes, both in organizational practice and social policy, that must also change to enable men and women to… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries:… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
Women are human beings, and human beings are a very mixed lot. I've always been against the idea that women were Victorian… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“What has greatly help'd to confirm the Men in the prejudiced notion of Women's natural weakness, is the common manner of expression… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
I think a lot of divisions of perspective and experience that happen within feminism are very natural. Any movement that represents the… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Here's my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it's important to be a feminist. It's important to have female characters. It's wonderful… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“But the more empowered women in the workforce, the better. The more that women mentor women, the stronger our answer is to… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
“Our bodies are everything. They are the tools our mothers and their mothers used to end wars. Women have used their bodies… — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share Image
I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“Society is obsessed with women's bodies and I take my body back by doing whatever it is that I want to do… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
It's not so much about powerful women. In some cases, there are stereotypes about women. I often don't hear men talked about… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
I think men need classes on how to treat a woman, rather than women taking self defense classes so we aren't assaulted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that… — Jenny Shipley Copy Share Image
The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have… — Michael Kimmel Copy Share Image
The female perspective is what I relate to and I understand it. I find it fascinating. I like to see women in… — Denise Di Novi Copy Share Image
“A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What happens to our island affects all of us, including my boys.” Isa looked Marco in the eyes, like a boa constrictor… — Margarita Barresi Copy Share Image
“. . . women internalize the feminine wound or feminine inferiority so deeply, there's little or no female authority and esteem to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I have led the way for moving women from traditional roles to strategic positions and inspired girls and women throughout Africa to… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The problem with women was that they were always planning some future that involved you and that you were not aware of,… — Jean Thompson Copy Share Image
Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of… — Ellen DuBois Copy Share Image
The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Because the griots who compose these texts are part of a patriarchal system that frequently devalues women, we should not be surprised… — Hugh R. Page Jr Copy Share Image
There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
