“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have this theory that people are actually really hungry for sonic space and understanding words, and I think that people are… — June Millington Copy Share Image
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also… — John Berger Copy Share Image
If you are a woman and you bought this book for practical tips on how to make it in a male-dominated workplace,… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“Self-denial can lock women into a smug and critical condescension to other, less devout women. According to Appel, cult members develop..."an attitude… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“As the postwoman waited, she dreamed of all the things she liked….Tiny postal stamps with colourful pictures. Thick postcards with exotic fragrances.… — Priyadarshini Copy Share Image
Traditionally, women didn't have much a role in Buddhism. The books were all written by monks, for other monks. So the general… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I've fought to close the gender and racial pay gap for a very long time. One piece of advice I like to… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
So when I say that I think we would have a different ethical level, particularly in corporate America, if there were more… — Vicki Donlan Copy Share Image
“In my experience, the balancing act women in politics have to master is challenging at every level, but it gets worse the… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure. That means… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Victor Hugo said you can stop an invasion of armies, but you can never stop an invasion of ideas. There's nothing more… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I was not considered beautiful before I was a feminist. I was a pretty girl before, but suddenly, after I was publicly… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“I shou'd not myself have thought [Cato] worth so much notice as I have here taken of him; but that the Men… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
You can't always say and do things and wait until the right moment, when everything is perfectly lined up. As women, I… — Jessica Mendoza Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
Venus Williams is a multi-millionaire not in spite of the fact that she is a woman, but precisely because she's a woman.… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
I think that what we need is a balance between men and women. I don't believe in the value of the matriarchy… — James Wasserman Copy Share Image
“I would earnestly ask my sisters to keep clear of both the jargons now current everywhere (for they are equally jargons); of… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“To be an unruly woman today is to oscillate between the postures of fearlessness and self-doubt, between listening to the voices that… — Anne Helen Petersen Copy Share Image
I don't mean to sound sexist, but as far as women have come over the last 40 years, you don't really see… — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
I think that the same kind of openness and fluidity and willingness to interrogate power that we, as feminists, expect from men… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The reference in the text to “noble sons and noble daughters” has additional significance that modern practitioners should bear in mind. This… — Thupten Jinpa Copy Share Image
I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This… — Kate O'Beirne Copy Share Image
“Does rough weather choose men over women? Does the sun beat on men, leaving women nice and cool?' Nyawira asked rather sharply.… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
“Any woman who has moved from the playing fields of male discourse into the realm where women are developing our own descriptions… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“(Ezekial saw the wheel (Way up in the middle of the air -- (O Ezekial saw the wheel (Way in the middle… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
Women need to take charge of their lives and be as dynamic and active as they can be. I know that some… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“I have a date,' he explained. 'This is an emergency.' He paused to catch his breath. 'Do you know' - breath -… — John Green Copy Share Image
All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image