I think there's a misunderstanding that feminism is about bringing men down to bring women up and it's certainly not that. — Desi Lydic Copy Share Image
“There are some nations, viz., the Persians and Russians, where the women regard blows as a peculiar sign of love and favour.” — Richard von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
Nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens,… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
What I want to do is encourage women to take on this incredibly exciting and fun challenge to use their brains for… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
From our perspective, while violence against women is a problem in it of itself, it's also usually an extreme form of treatment… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
There is hardly anything more confusing than a really strong-willed woman and when you are surrounded by two of them in the… — Austin Butler Copy Share Image
For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“Listen my dear sister! You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken. Say to yourself, I… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families'… — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
“This is the ultimate chicken and the egg situation. The chicken: Women will tear down the external barriers once we achieve leadership… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Would you consider a man or a woman to be complicated? Is it that difficult to understand both the sexes? We say… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
All I can say is that, as an industry, we are trying to come together and find a way of constructively making… — Radhika Apte Copy Share Image
Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
It's a fact that within the space of a few decades, women have achieved a massive shift in the role they play… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
Our individual wholeness includes a masculine and a feminine side, which are slowly (or not so slowly) wrung out of us, depending… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
one sex of voice in public matters, and that we could in no way so increase the attention , the intelligence and… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Obviously Feministing is kind of a women's space in a certain way, even though we have a lot of male readership and… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a… — Gwen Moore Copy Share Image
Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses. — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
The demands of having to be 'masculine' are as damaging to men as the demands of having to be 'feminine' are to… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Women run a majority of nonprofit organizations with budgets under $1 million. But as budgets grow, the ranks of women shrink.” — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered,… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“The world will change when women reclaim their power as the sane, nurturing hands of love, which are ever reaching to cultivate… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
We have, or have had women presidents or prime ministers in Liberia, Chile, Germany, Great Britain...and yet the US of A still… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
“I am afraid we women are factionists; we always take a side, and nature has formed us for advocates rather than judges.” — Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan Copy Share Image
Women have helped shape North Carolina in every discipline and industry, from manufacturing, medicine, and law to business, the arts, and sciences. — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
“women are so suspicious of any interest that has not some obvious motive behind it, so terribly accustomed to concealment and suppression,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Full social and political engagement is impossible without economic empowerment, a point that is as true for women as it is for… — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
As women, we have to deal with constant threats of violence. And it's in our media and fiction, too. So we internalize… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
For me, a feminist is a self-empowered woman who strives to move things forward for not only women but also men in… — Lotte Verbeek Copy Share Image
It's important in our talks with Abbas to hear how women are represented in peace negotiations, how Palestine views the position of… — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image
I want to make it clear I'm not a chauvinist, but I believe a woman's place is in the house, ... The… — Michael McKinney Copy Share Image
Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There is much that women can bring into politics that would make our world a kinder, gentler place for humanity to thrive… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
There have been women who have pioneered and paved the way for me to be able to sit here and to have… — Ashlyn Harris Copy Share Image