Feminism Quotes · Page 111

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

— James Joyce

Don't be a woman that needs a man, be the woman a man needs.

— Minda

I always believe, as a woman, it's powerful to be able to pull your own body weight and be able to defend…

— Joan Smalls

...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

— Pope John Paul II

There is more to life than saas bahu issues with women being portrayed as petty characters and their own worst enemies.

— Saba Qamar

If women speak their mind, then they are termed as trouble makers or attention seekers.

— Nushrat Bharucha

I am often asked how does being a woman affect my work at Affectiva. Honestly, I don't think it does.

— Rana el Kaliouby

As individuals, we professional women need to learn how to raise our hands and ask for more throughout our careers.

— Caroline Ghosn

The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally…

— Mahatma Gandhi

There are three things that I have found were really critical in my first year: listening, prioritizing, and communicating. I don't think…

— Julie Sweet

One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it…

— Nicole Kidman

Most women I know who have been successful in business, it's because they've been willing to take on the risky challenge that…

— Sandra E. Peterson

We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.

— Graca Machel

Men are troublesome. They complain about trifles a woman wouldn't notice. The office boys...complain that the temperature of the building is too…

— Clara Lanza

A few atoms added here, subtracted there, is all it takes to make the difference between male and female sex characteristics, between…

— Roald Hoffmann

And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

When you look at the women that have made a real difference in the world throughout history, what they’ve done has almost…

— Anna Quindlen

“A society where feminine beauty is defined not by the human self on genuine intellectual and sentimental grounds, but by a computer…

— Abhijit Naskar

First of all, women inherently, I think, are quite capable of having lots of balls in the air. And so, like, it's…

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

“Pink reminds me of my love for dance. My youth. The innocence of being young. Tutus. Strawberry frosting on a vanilla cake…

— R.B. O'Brien

“t is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multitasking, but less good at map-reading and…

— Stephen Hawking

The feminist revolution has tied writers into knots when it comes to the third-person singular pronoun. Using the masculine pronoun as the…

— Charles Murray

“Oddly, I had never thought of myself as a feminist. I had been denounced by certain radical feminist collectives as a ‘lackey’…

— Elaine Brown

The Oneida Perfectionists, along with some of the others, believed that feminism, and abolitionism, and other causes that they pursued in their…

— Christine Jennings

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.

— Christoph Martin Wieland

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.

— Friedrich Engels

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

— George Eliot

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

— Camille Paglia

“It doesn't matter what women wear. No matter what, someone's going to have a problem with it.”

— Kaya Carvajal

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

— Victoria Woodhull

There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous.

— Frederick Lenz

Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race.

— Keir Hardie

“Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men.”

— Oscar Wilde

There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.

— Dru Pagliassotti

We need to stand together with all of the victims [ of sexual harassment] and make sure they are not silenced.

— Gretchen Carlson

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

— Barbara De Angelis

“For men rise or fall based entirely on what the women in their lives demand of them.”

— Kim Wright

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.

— Gloria Steinem

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

— Lewis Carroll

Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.

— Fanny Brice