Feminism Quotes · Page 104

There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.

— Anita Borg

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.

— Callie Khouri

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

— Harriet Harman

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of…

— Hedi Slimane

Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.

— Walter Scott

I want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female.

— Twiggy

In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.

— Rebekah Brooks

To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise.

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

You people are right - I am for equal rights for women. I am for that female jobs such as feeding husband…

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive…

— Basmah bint Saud

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional…

— Anonymous

... the danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the degree to which women approximatedto…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse…

— Carre Otis

But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such…

— Teresa de Lauretis

Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as…

— Karen DeCrow

If we want to get beyond this whole I'm-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging…

— Michael Arrington

Success will be measured by change in the appallingly high levels of violence directed at women online and in the physical world,…

— Tara Moss

“This is why a woman needs to combine niceness with insistence, a style that Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of…

— Sheryl Sandberg

There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man.…

— Alice Hegan Rice

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— Phylicia Rashad

“Larsson was an active and lifelong feminist, partly for personal reasons but also because he saw that ending gender slavery was as…

— Elizabeth Farrelly

“The Israelis have consistently refused to put women in combat since their experiences in 1948. I have been told by several Israeli…

— Dave Grossman

“perhaps the greatest challenge to thinking women is the challenge to move from the desire for safety and approval to the most…

— Gerda Lerner

It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun. There is…

— Alice Paul

Women never really care to face the truth when their hearts are involved.

— Anthony Hopkins

“And if he presses, tell him it’s a female matter. That stops any question.”

— Elizabeth Hoyt

Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

— Oliver Herford

There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“To be rapable, a position that is social not biological, defines what a woman is.”

— Catharine A. MacKinnon

the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.

— Emily James Smith Putnam

Most women who have done something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone.

— Francoise Gilot

“Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle.”

— Diana Palmer

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

— Hedy Lamarr

. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

— M. Carey Thomas

So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.

— Rosalind Wiseman

Women are not a garment you wear and undress however you like. They are honored and have their rights.

— Umar

Women bond differently, and I don't think men understand that.

— Julie Garwood

We believe in the empowerment of women and we will not compromise in that goal.

— Chris Bowen

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

— Simone de Beauvoir