Feminism Quotes · Page 90

“I prefer male enemies to female ones; I can survive a dog’s bite better than a scorpion’s sting.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

— Gloria Steinem

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

— Camille Paglia

To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.

— Betty Friedan

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

— George Bernard Shaw

the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

— Rose Macaulay

Two things man has struggled to understand for years 1) The mysteries of the universe 2) The mind of a woman.

— Jatinder Babbar

The idea that Democrats have a lock on the female vote is contradicted by history.

— S.E. Cupp

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons…

— Ellen Wilkinson

It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She…

— Ernestine Rose

It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit;…

— John Milton

I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never…

— Alber Elbaz

Employing more women at all levels of a company, from new hires to senior leaders, creates a virtuous cycle. Companies become more…

— Susan Wojcicki

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist…

— Rebecca West

Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.

— Richard Brookhiser

Instead of looking to male mentors, saying this is the paradigm of a candidate and it looks like this, we're suddenly finding…

— Mikie Sherrill

I am a feminist. I'm trying to show the relationships between men and women, always the structural relations, not individual villains. I'd…

— Alix Kates Shulman

“Feminism, as of late, has suffered from a certain guilt by association because we conflate feminism with women who advocate feminism as…

— Roxane Gay

“But what can women do in times of war? They help, they cheer, they inspire, and if their cause is lost they…

— Zane Grey

I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up…

— Dolly Parton

If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in…

— Wyndham Lewis

Being a feminist is not about how successful, talented, and assertive you are in your own life. It's about whether you support…

— Stephanie Coontz

We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me…

— Lilly Ledbetter

“A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across…

— John Berger

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

— Anonymous

The beauty of being a feminist is that you get to be whatever you want. And that's the point.

— Shonda Rhimes

I would never have seen myself as a gung-ho feminist growing up; my mum was quite scathing of bra-burners and things.

— Cathy Newman

In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate.

— Alanis Morissette

It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.

— Angelique Kidjo

Women are generally drawn to men who can protect and provide.

— Mazher

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

— Susan B. Anthony

The primary cause of this national crisis is the feminization of men.

— Tony Evans

We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.

— Andre Maurois

I have always thought the women's movement traded too much on outrage and not enough on ridicule.

— Mary Beard

Women should take care of each other, not tear each other down.

— Jennifer Garner

Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger.

— Craig Brown

Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.

— Keren Woodward

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

— Oscar Wilde

The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.

— Phyllis Schlafly

“Chivalry does not imply that women are powerless. On the contrary, chivalry is an admission of women’s superiority.”

— Beth Fantaskey