I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Women did not have as many options as men, and I need to reflect that reality in my mysteries. — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I have to tell you, though, the sexism in late night talk is so profound. — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is… — Charlotte Bunch Copy Share Image
Actors and writers and adjuncts are always looking for their next job: they find common cause with the female Uber drivers on… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they… — Aime Martin Copy Share Image
It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“I’d certainly hate to see you sitting around in those smoke-filled rooms at the club debating politics. It’s just not the right… — Ariel Lawhon Copy Share Image
“The women of the world will dominate politics, some day, and you mustn't be too old-fashioned in your notions to join the… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
A woman who ran a feminist organization in India told me one thing that stands out for her is bride burning. If… — Barbara Crossette Copy Share Image
We've learned that women can and should do 'men's jobs,' for instance, and we've won the principle (if not the fact) of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“[The ideology of beauty] has grown strong to take over the work of social coercion that myths about motherhood, domesticity, chastity, and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
I honestly feel that most young women out there are feminists - they just don't know that the word "feminism" describes the… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image