Feminism Quotes · Page 129

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.”

— Núria Añó

Unfortunately, most men would only be interested in a woman's mind if it bounced when she walked.

— Ray Toro

“The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

— Adam Grant

More men will continue to attain enlightenment than women, unless women change their use of the second attention.

— Frederick Lenz

Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.

— Emma Bonino

We sent out 3,000 Valentines to the ladies, asking them to be my voter.

— Terry Dill

“To her credit, though, Trace didn't lose her famous temper, not at that moment. At eighteen she was already expert at the…

— Zadie Smith

Putting my words piece online was an important part of my plan to help women learn how to love themselves and have…

— Tracy McMillan

We're never going to come to a moment where all of us who claim to be feminists can agree about what the…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject…

— Amelie Nothomb

So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more…

— Betty Buckley

It is always great to see technology leaders like Ginni Rometty, Marissa Mayer, and Meg Whitman breaking through as a new generation…

— Naveen Jain

Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would…

— Charles Caleb Colton

When you take away healthcare from women, you're keeping women out of the workforce because you're eliminating their choice of when to…

— Jessica Chastain

“We fought for equality for all, for women too. For freethinking, fighting the lies of church and state, for what Nat called…

— M.J. Carter

You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women…

— Ginger Rogers

What bothers me the most about the way that people appropriate feminist language is that they are the same people who are…

— Jessica Valenti

I have been villainized because of my identity - I've received nasty blog comments and emails just based on my willingness to…

— Julie Zeilinger

There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex.…

— Virginia Gildersleeve

I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do…

— Rashida Jones

If there's an article about sexual assault, if there's a video about feminism on YouTube, you're going to get the most horrible,…

— Jessica Valenti

“Men call it the tyranny of tears, it is an iron tyranny—no man could be so cruel, so devilish, as a woman…

— Christina Stead

Women are the most underutilized 'resource' in the world economy.

— Arancha Gonzalez

I know the force women can exert in directing the course of events.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

Let's respect women for the value - let's respect everyone, men and women, for the value they bring to the workplace.

— Nancy Pelosi

The women are the movers and shakers in the community...they initiate things...they keep things going.

— Pat O'Shane

In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.

— Stephen Leacock

Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.

— Diane Johnson

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.

— John Gray

“Women can’t advance if they pick up their skirts and run every time a man growls.” Dix”

— Beverly Jenkins

“She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

— Laura Schlessinger

“At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.”

— Gavin de Becker

Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

— Jerome K. Jerome

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

— Helen Keller

“Read "The Story of O." Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a…

— Whitney Otto

It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.

— Mary Roach

Steve was every woman's fantasy: macho but not a jerk, sensitive but not a wuss.

— Terri Irwin