Feminism Quotes · Page 121

Feminism isn't about curating or policing the boundaries of womanhood.

— Ash Sarkar

As CEOs or board members, women are still underrepresented, and that gap is actually growing.

— Gillian Tans

Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.

— Steve Martin

The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on.

— Eileen Pollack

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

— Saul Bellow

The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as…

— Laura Wilkinson

Women are empowered, and they got better jobs than their husbands.

— Eddie Griffin

I think it's fair to say that women have a different level of intuitiveness that allows them to perhaps handle situations a…

— Lisa Murkowski

all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their…

— Agatha Christie

Women are like a computer virus... they enter your life, scan your pockets, transfer your money, edit your mind, download their problems,…

— Anonymous

“Sometimes, it seems like popular media exists primarily to set impossible standards and then to shame people who don't try their hardest…

— Carina Chocano

“Women do not enter a profession in significant numbers until it is physically safe. So until we care enough about men's safety…

— Warren Farrell

If you were really a feminist, you'd support housewives. You'd see them as the heroes and women who work as just wasting…

— Gavin McInnes

“My brother doesn't know how to think of anything other than his own responsibilities." "Perhaps she will teach him-?" "Perhaps? Possibly? Maybe?…

— Cathy Maxwell

“Thanks for nothing, regular human mom. Footnote: nothing except for the unconditional love and support and meticulous care to make sure I…

— Lindy West

Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they…

— Florence Nightingale

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the…

— Frances Wright

“ All of us, whether vivisector or vegan, have been subject to mechanisms undercutting sympathy for animals. How long and to what…

— Brian Luke

The female brain may confer distinctive economic advantages, to the benefit of all, and we should, therefore, pursue seriously having equal numbers…

— Semir Zeki

The choices that women make have huge impact on families, on communities and on nations. Being able to provide an enabling environment…

— Babatunde Osotimehin

My feminism has evolved way beyond self-empowerment and I see feminism as a path to peace on earth. The fundamental imbalance that…

— Ani DiFranco

“In 1970, American women were paid 59 cents for every dollar their male counterparts made. By 2010, women had protested, fought, and…

— Sheryl Sandberg

I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed…

— Geena Davis

I think the biggest issue for women in the workplace is men!

— Wendy Williams

One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.

— Lisa Kleypas

I think women have not been terribly kind to other women for a very long time.

— Sarah Lancashire

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

— Hillary Clinton

I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.

— Jill Scott

Communities and countries and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women.

— Michelle Obama

It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.

— Confucius

Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.

— Melinda Gates

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

— Anonymous

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

— Clifford Geertz

“You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.

— Elizabeth Warren

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

— Helen Rowland

Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves.

— Robertson Davies

To empower the women in rural areas, we have started something called Mission Shakti.

— Naveen Patnaik

Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.

— Sarah Shahi