Feminism Quotes · Page 113

If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

— A. S. Byatt

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

— Carly Fiorina

We don't often get to see women be powerful and not play the victim.

— Neve Campbell

There's a lot of pressure on young women. We need more honest women who are willing to talk about their struggles.

— Alexa Ray Joel

“The greater part of a men who speak ill of women are speaking of a certain woman.”

— Remy de Gourmont

Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

— Adah Isaacs Menken

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.

— Helen Rowland

Movements like Time's Up and #MeToo are putting the problems out there and creating conversations about the issues, and that's really how…

— Nadine Labaki

I was interested in the ripples of feminism passing through Britain and Ireland in the mid-Seventies - how the reverberations of the…

— Maggie O'Farrell

Yet there is clearly something about bold, neurodivergent women and girls that prompts powerful men to scrape the sides of their own…

— Jack Monroe

If women don't participate in tech, with its massive prominence in our lives and society, we risk losing many of the economic,…

— Susan Wojcicki

how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content…

— Daphne du Maurier

I hope to literally change the world with Black Girls Code by changing the paradigm which produces the current monolithic ecosystem in…

— Kimberly Bryant

If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor,…

— Lynsey Addario

My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written…

— Vandana Shiva

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

“Women choose to be catty, cruel, prejudiced, competitive or jealous of each other partly because we grow up learning that negative behavior…

— Inga Muscio

I honestly feel that most young women out there are feminists - they just don't know that the word "feminism" describes the…

— Julie Zeilinger

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

..."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

Looking at the shape of the world, I see how we're in a time where women are the subject of hatred, fear,…

— Louise Erdrich

A woman who ran a feminist organization in India told me one thing that stands out for her is bride burning. If…

— Barbara Crossette

I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world.

— Jessica Valenti

If you believe in equality, you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you.

— Emma Watson

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

— Walter Bagehot

Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.

— Margaret Way

It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Security for women needs to focussed on every section of the society.

— Soha Ali Khan

“There is a change coming I think in the lives of girls and women. Yes, but it is up to us to…

— Alice Munro

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

— Christopher Lasch

Men look at a woman's behind and think,Wow, what an ass! Women look at a man's face and think the same thing.

— Anonymous

Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people.

— Laura Riding

Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

— Dee Dee Myers

The world has become more diversified, with women becoming a real power of change.

— Dalia Grybauskaite

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.

— Thomas Adcock

“Many women spend their lives pretending to be stupid because their husbands can’t handle an equal!”

— Jentezen Franklin

Men with anger do not know how to deal with unreasonable, pushy people, particularly women.

— Jesse Lee Peterson