Feminism Quotes · Page 93

Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.

— Margaret Way

Security for women needs to focussed on every section of the society.

— Soha Ali Khan

“A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.”

— Brandon Sanderson

It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

— Walter Bagehot

If you believe in equality, you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you.

— Emma Watson

Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

— Adah Isaacs Menken

I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world.

— Jessica Valenti

There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring…

— Sally Ride

... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine…

— Anna Julia Cooper

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make…

— Honore de Balzac

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

There are a lot of women out there who are doing crazy things behind closed doors sexual-wise and are afraid to admit…

— Lil' Kim

Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself…

— Louisa May Alcott

I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely…

— Len Goodman

I remember the first time somebody classified me as a feminist. I was in fourth grade. And I remember thinking, 'Oh, is…

— Marielle Heller

“I used to think I would be rewarded for good behavior. Therefore, if I wasn’t understood, I must not be understandable; if…

— Gloria Steinem

“One whose testimony made a major impact more than a decade ago is Ben Barres, formerly Barbara Barres, a biologist at Stanford…

— Rebecca Solnit

When I studied computer science at Duke University in the first half of the 1980s, I had professors who treated women differently…

— Melinda Gates

You are thinking about where your brain is at any time. It's very tricky but it's why women are very well suited…

— Meryl Streep

I think that popular culture takes a long time to catch up to what's actually happening in the world. Women have had…

— Lisa Edelstein

What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you…

— Erica Jong

Consider the sexual harassment which continually occurs between a secretary and a boss . . . while objectionable to many women, [it]…

— Walter Block

It is not a dirty word, 'feminism'. I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as…

— Cyndi Lauper

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

— Carly Fiorina

“The greater part of a men who speak ill of women are speaking of a certain woman.”

— Remy de Gourmont

There's a lot of pressure on young women. We need more honest women who are willing to talk about their struggles.

— Alexa Ray Joel

We don't often get to see women be powerful and not play the victim.

— Neve Campbell

“Many women spend their lives pretending to be stupid because their husbands can’t handle an equal!”

— Jentezen Franklin

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.

— Thomas Adcock

The world has become more diversified, with women becoming a real power of change.

— Dalia Grybauskaite

Men with anger do not know how to deal with unreasonable, pushy people, particularly women.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

“Most women got at least some cockamamie in ‘em, but you are head-to-toe cockamamie,”

— Kristen Ashley

Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

— Dee Dee Myers

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

— Christopher Lasch

Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people.

— Laura Riding

Men look at a woman's behind and think,Wow, what an ass! Women look at a man's face and think the same thing.

— Anonymous

“There is a change coming I think in the lives of girls and women. Yes, but it is up to us to…

— Alice Munro

I think most women do not want to be treated as sort of a special class of citizen.

— Martha MacCallum