Feminism Quotes · Page 119

There are more and more women entering into the workforce themselves. More and more of them are making more money.

— Peggy Johnson

“...modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

— Jessica Savitch

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

— Jenny Shipley

Woman! woman! What a disturbing element you are in the universe - man's universe!

— Marah Ellis Ryan

Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.

— Zainab Salbi

“The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not possible that it is God's will that women are making 77 cents on a dollar.

— Tom Perez

I think the patriarchal world has reigned supreme for so long that the pendulum's swinging too far the other way. It needed…

— Robert Johnson

Fleabag knows men and women are equal and should be treated as such, but what she's confused about - and what I…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I'm furious about the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true,…

— Anita Loos

The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest…

— Marlene Dumas

“I glance down to what I'm wearing. A crop top, a skirt - it's hot, and it made sense to me. I…

— Kyle Labe

“for it is a universal rule that however bashful or angry a woman may be she never disregards a man's kneeling at…

— Vatsyayana

Women don't run around saying, "Oh, I took a Bodysex workshop, and I had so much fun, and Betty Dodson taught us…

— Betty Dodson

Nowhere in the world is a woman safe from violence. The strengthening of global commitment to counteract this plague is a movement…

— Asha-Rose Migiro

We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means…

— Gloria Steinem

A lot of people don't understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success for women, but it's not…

— Phyllis Schlafly

Men are the ones who often juggle back and forth for power. It is the women who bring humanity to the table…

— Leymah Gbowee

Perhaps some day men will raise a tablet reading in letters of gold: 'All honor to women, the first disenfranchised class in…

— Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

The way I feel about Crunk Feminists. Here you have a bunch of bloggers who are not even quoting any feminists' works…

— Talib Kweli

Feminism wasn't really at the top of my vocabulary. I think what's been interesting for me - let me say this delicately…

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

It just struck me as really odd that there were all of these conversations going on about what young women were up…

— Jessica Valenti

I should say that feminism gave me permission to deal with my own emotional life and put it up front in certain…

— Yvonne Rainer

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

— Jane Addams

“And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.”

— Ian Rankin

Of course I’m a feminist…if you’re not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you’re a fascist.

— Jessica Pare

“A man could settle down and still be inspired," he said. "That's all it is. She's a woman who inspires.”

— Marc Fitten

Freedom of expression is essential for feminists and dissidents in the Muslim world.

— Deeyah Khan

“We’ve exalted our womenfolk into little tin gods, and at the same time left them out of the real business of life.”

— John Buchan

If u want something say, ask a man. If u want something down, ask a woman.

— Magerat Thatcher

“Women want me, and men want to be me. And by me I mean Ryan Gosling.”

— Jarod Kintz

Women know what they're doing all the time, and they're pretending that they don't.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

— Melinda Gates

What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.

— Calvin Coolidge

Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.

— Paul Ryan

Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do.

— Ann Coulter

We women manage to do many things at the same time. Men, no. Men do one thing at a time.

— Carolina Herrera

Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs.

— Malin Akerman

“Women who bear the weight of opposition, she wrote, create a shelter for the rest of us.”

— Sue Monk Kidd