At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“Women were most frequently institutionalized by the order of husbands and fathers, whose will and opinion superseded the women’s. A doctor’s legal… — Kate Clifford Larson Copy Share Image
“ What is a woman's place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin's words read. I rebel against this question, though so many… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Suffragists had often staged political “pageants” in which they wore sashes emblazoned “Votes for Women.” But 1921, the year following the ratification… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
I wouldn't advocate for a feminism that's buttoned-up and divorced of the messiness of our real lives. Your feelings are your feelings,… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
“Of the various qualities of leadership, women were rated far, far ahead of men on being “honest,” “intelligent,” “compassionate,” “outgoing,” and “creative,”… — Linda Tarr-Whelan Copy Share Image
Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful,… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries.… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“There are times when girls are inspired, when they want the risks to go on and on. They want to be heroines,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives- our skin color, the land or concrete we… — Michelle Cliff Copy Share Image
“What is whiter than snow?' he said. 'The truth,' said Grania. 'What is the best colour?' said Finn. 'The colour of childhood,'… — Augusta Gregory Copy Share Image
I think women need to stop fighting women. But not just fighting each other, fighting ourselves. I honestly think self-love is so… — Harnaam Kaur Copy Share Image
It is more difficult to research women's lives than it is men's. There has always been a tendency - race notwithstanding -… — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
I want men and women to both feel a part in the flourishment of female power. So I want to celebrate that… — Zella Day Copy Share Image
If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology… — Anita Borg Copy Share Image
By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
The fact that women begin to avoid running for public office because of the harassment and sometimes even violence that they face… — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Copy Share Image
“Our great civilizations are nothing more than social machines to create the ideal female setting, where a woman can count on stability;… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We should keep in mind that Revolutions anywhere are always glad to use any help they can get, even from women. But… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
If you're unhappy with your circumstances, then change them. Don't blame the government or your boss or the guy down the street… — Steven Crowder Copy Share Image
And finally, there is another danger: the emergence of nonideological but very aggressive 'isms,' which are really quite new. Let me at… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
“We love men because they can never fake orgasms, even if they wanted to. Because they write poems, songs, and books in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“[U]ntil feminists work to empower femininity and pry it away from the insipid, inferior meanings that plague it - weakness, helplessness, fragility,… — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
“Reclaiming the sacred... is not simply a new linguistic or symbolic strategy for feminism. It goes to the heart of feminist struggles… — Leela Fernandes Copy Share Image
I do believe that men and women are different, and that should be celebrated, but at the same time, I think there's… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
“THIS IS WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE. HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING; HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MUSCULAR;… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
“The real desire [of feminism] is to break away from rationalism, androcentrisim and all forms of philosophy and practices that discriminate against… — Gerald O. West Copy Share Image
Women have an incredible ability to pick up on emotional signals. For example, there are some wolves that are so clever they… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Every woman deals with sexism most every day of their lives. Growing up, it's just in your day-to-day. There are all these… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' is an idealized, fun comedy world in which feminism is an underlying value that all the characters have. Equality is… — Stephanie Beatriz Copy Share Image
Women, who enjoyed a high social status and levels of education under Saddam, saw terrible setbacks as Iraq fell into civil war.… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
I just think that we're all trying to make ourselves emaciated, in order to pretend that we're all disappearing, as we move… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Women are raised to be the nurturers and steadiers of rocked boats, to hold relationships in place as if our lives depended… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
As I looked more carefully at the listening matrix I saw that during the past twenty years we had taken a magnifying… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“I am a feminist because I dislike everything that feminism implies. I desire an end to the whole business, the demands for… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I didn't even know how much of a feminist I was, and I realized, 'Oh my God, I was raised by a… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
“...once becoming a mother, a woman might be radicalized in her feminism. She had a greater stake in saving the earth from… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image