Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual…

So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever…

— Roxane Gay

Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

— Alison Goldfrapp

“The fact that most perpetrators of organised abuse are men, and that their most intensive and sadistic abuses are visited upon girls and women,…

— Michael Salter

Whenever I talk about being a feminist or speaking out for equality, it's also about the idea that men are treated with respect. It's…

— Evan Rachel Wood

Believing that all women should want to be mothers makes about as much sense as believing that all men should want to be engineers.

— Harriet Lerner

To me, feminism is believing in women's equality, and I ardently ascribe to that belief.

— Cory Booker

“Those who calumniate the unaware but honorable believing women are cursed in the present life and the Hereafter. And for them is a grievous…

— The Qur'an An-Nur (23): verse 24

Taking the strong believing women as role models for both men and women, clearly indicates that the Quran acknowledges the woman's ability to be…

— Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

“I don't know why people persist in believing women are inferior, when it is quite clear that men are the more feeble-minded of the…

— Julia Quinn

“Maybe it was different for you and Valerie, since you didn't like each other much. But many, perhaps most siblings share a private universe…

— Lionel Shriver

The ceremonial and religious uses of psychedelics are much older than their recreational uses and abuses. For most of their history, they have been…

— Humphry Osmond

Always, when the words art and artistic are applied to my photographic work, I am disagreeably affected. This is due, surely, to the bad…

— Tina Modotti

For most humans, especially for those in modern urban and suburban communities, the most direct form of contact with nonhuman animals is at meal…

— Peter Singer

“Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the basis of…

— Hannah Arendt

My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My…

— Nigel Rees