Feminism Quotes · Page 135

“Gender equality is not something we should have to fight for, it should have always been.”

— Robyn Oyeniyi

I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

— Sarah Jessica Parker

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

— Mo Ibrahim

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

— Chris Abani

I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.

— Melanie Griffith

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women

— Lillian B. Rubin

Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.

— Mehmet Oz

“If women ruled the world there would be no wars. But, we all would have been aborted.”

— Christy Leigh Stewart

Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman—all is Atman! Give up the identification…

— Swami Vivekananda

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and…

— Phyllis McGinley

Every woman has the ability to control her image, the way she conduct herself, the way she allows man to talk to…

— Drusila T

“The "hillbilly" girls were generating more enriched Tubealloy per run than the PhDs had...The District Engineer understood perfectly. Those girls...had been trained…

— Denise Kiernan

I'm a major feminist. There's a real politic in life, where I've been in rooms where real decisions are made, and it's…

— Courtney Love

... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only…

— Emma Goldman

We all have responsibility to stop violence and discrimination against women, whether it's in our businesses, in our homes, or on our…

— Paul Polman

When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.

— Christine Pelosi

So for me to actually have access to women, to feminist women, to gay people, to trans people, to intellectuals, iconoclasts, weirdos,…

— Jill Soloway

This is a culture of female display. And the reason it's a culture of female display is that on the Upper East…

— Wednesday Martin

“Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. This was a definition of feminism I offered in…

— Bell Hooks

Until the mid-seventies, the traditional or classic lesbian was always a spinster and often a tweedy intellectual, with a stark glamour that…

— Florence King

The ultra-right would have us believe that families are in trouble because of humanism, feminism, secular education, or sexual liberation, but the…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the…

— Gertrude Stein

“Any relationship that developed power dynamics, where she thought she had the right to dictate someone else's behavior or have him dictate…

— Thomm Quackenbush

I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think. You know, it used to be, 10…

— Jessica Valenti

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

— Carolyn Maloney

Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

— Madame de Stael

“Just like in the workplace, women who are good workers are the best workers.”

— Bill Maher

I think it was a subject matter that The Social Network didn't involve a lot of women. That's all I think it…

— Allison Janney

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

— Susan B. Anthony

I think I'm in control of what I do and what I've done. I think that's the ultimate feminine power. Do as…

— Pamela Anderson

Without meaning to sound anti-men, ghastly women are the closest you get to a male role.

— Kathy Burke

The voices of women need to be heard. The volume needs to be turned up.

— Ann Bancroft

Crazy is any man who would violate the very thing he wants the most- A Good Woman..

— Virgil Nelson

“Every woman's pretty intimidating when you only look at her accomplishments.”

— Rebecca H. Jamison

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.

— Warren Farrell

“In ethics of life, the gender that are much discussed, are favourites.”

— sol michael

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

— Margaret Fuller

Men who say things can't be done shouldn't interrupt the woman who ends up doing it.

— Anonymous

Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.

— Helen Fisher

Femme people exist, and they are layered and they are complex and they are intelligent.

— Nico Santos