Feminism Quotes · Page 125

Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.

— Joseph de Maistre

Any man who thinks he knows the mind of a woman is a man who knows nothing.

— Robert Evans

“I’ve seen the first three Terminator movies in succession more times in my life than I have shaved my legs.”

— Christy Leigh Stewart

Maybe more men would stand up and be gentlemen if more women would sit down and be ladies.

— Anonymous

Single female life is not prescription, but its opposite: liberation.

— Rebecca Traister

“American feminism has always had a puritanical strain, an imposed blindness to erotic truth.”

— Siri Hustvedt

So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women.

— Bobbi Brown

“For it goes without saying, women with the fluidity of water do not make dormant wives, nor ice for that matter.”

— Candace Gleave

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination…

— Warren Farrell

“When women tell me that Skinny Bitch made them go vegan, my appreciation of the book's purpose is tainted by a sadness…

— Kim Socha

The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a…

— Mahatma Gandhi

To every woman out there who thinks that they might like to get involved in politics or stand for parliament, I say…

— Nicola Sturgeon

“It comes down to this. Some one must wash the dishes. Now, would you expect man, man made in the image of…

— Marie Jenney Howe

I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender…

— Gloria Steinem

“Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who…

— Toni Morrison

What shocked me was three different anti-prostitution feminists asking me to justify that I had been a sex worker, to prove it.…

— Melissa Gira Grant

“In the twentieth century the women who wanted to be on their own were some of the best, the honest ones, those…

— Richard Aldington

When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no…

— Mary Heaton Vorse

As a culture, the West has found itself in a strange, not battle of the genders, but battle in one's own gender.…

— Jude Law

“When negotiating, "Think personally, act communally." I have advised many women to preface negotiations by explaining that they know that women often…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“The unstated premise that nature is nice lies behind many of the objections to the Darwinian theory of human sexuality. Carefree sex…

— Steven Pinker

Education is fundamental. And I know some aren't blessed to be afforded the luxury, 'cause as sad as it is in 2016,…

— Eva Marcille

In the matriarchy, which happens in a little microcosm across the blogosphere, we have these mini 'women in control' societies. And what…

— Gavin McInnes

A real man never stops trying to show a woman how much she means to him, even after he's got her.

— Anonymous

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

— Susan B. Anthony

Any time you're a woman in a macho, manly field, you're going to encounter obstacles.

— Ryan Clark

...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.

— Pearl Cleage

“Women only want what they don't have. Men want what they can't have.”

— Derek Haines

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.

— William Collins

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

— Vivienne Westwood

There's a lot of power and responsibility that comes with owning who you are as a woman.

— Mia Goth

“Gender and the complications it gives rise to simply aren't relevant to the lives appliances lead.”

— Thomas M. Disch

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

— Susan B. Anthony

“No man deserves a woman like that. He mortgages his very soul to win her and spends his life paying off the…

— Tessa Dare

“Women! Whether human or divine, what man can ever truly understand them?”

— Debra Holland

“In politics, if you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman”

— Margaret Thatcher

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

— Leo Tolstoy

woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…

— Thomas Hardy