Feminism Quotes · Page 102

Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes.

— Janice Kaplan

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.

— Sally Kempton

Make education more accessible to women - all women, not just Americans.

— Carolyn Porco

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“That's how a woman wins a mans heart, by making him think that he amuses her.”

— Louis de Bernières

“hold on to 16 as long as you can. changes coming round real soon, make us women and men.”

— John Mellencamp

This women's moment to embrace the power-to for good in life and leadership.

— Gloria Feldt

There is not an Aquarius woman in the world who wants to be told what to do.

— Anonymous

It's normal; Arab women have always been very active at the forefront of culture - as film producers since the 1920s; as…

— Yasmine Hamdan

“Remember that this is what separates the women from the girls. If you want to be great, this is the challenge. If…

— Ben Horowitz

The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman.…

— Charles de Lint

I've worked hard on my doctorate, and I want to be acknowledged for that. But I also wanted to comment on this…

— Alissa Nutting

We are still living with a double standard. I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you're in the media…

— Hillary Clinton

“The Seventh Sense" Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by…

— Audre Lorde

Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a…

— James Thurber

The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women…

— Brigid Schulte

“The proletariat could plan to massacre the whole ruling class; a fanatic Jew or black could dream of seizing the secret of…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I do not deny certain kinds of biological differences. But I always ask under what conditions, under what discursive and institutional conditions,…

— Judith Butler

Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical…

— Bell Hooks

“Frankly, I'm not responsible for other people's perceptions and what they consider real or fake. We must abolish the entitlement that deludes…

— Janet Mock

The National Socialist state refuses to admit female labour in factories merely because such labour is cheap. There is, of course, a…

— Adolf Hitler

“What do you have to forget or overlook in order to desire that this dysfunctional clan once more occupies the White House…

— Christopher Hitchens

During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative…

— George Bernard Shaw

As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women…

— Tom Hodgkinson

Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote.

— Susan Jane Gilman

“Admit to yourself women are equal. In fact go ahead and say it. They're superior. Nuff said.”

— Dennis James

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

— Doris Lessing

When you think about it, girls and women are the largest market in the world.

— Tae Yoo

“The ability for a woman to be free is connected with her ability to love another woman.”

— Susan Griffin

Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us, don't take us for granted!

— Natalie Martinez

All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.

— Daniel Mainwaring

Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

— Les Dawson

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

— Joss Whedon

I do feel I have a responsibility to empower women and to inspire them.

— Kylie Bunbury

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.

— Anna Howard Shaw

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

— Mignon McLaughlin

All the women in my life are formidable. I have seen them all step up to handle adversity with grace.

— Rick Owens

I never felt the need for feminism. I never felt competition with men, which I really believed started the movement.

— Angie Dickinson

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

— Robert Frost