Feminism Quotes · Page 142

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

— Susan B. Anthony

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.

— Francois Rabelais

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband

— Lauren Bacall

A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“We’ve realized that women have souls, and men have feelings.”

— Melody Beattie

Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.

— Oscar de la Renta

Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.

— Vidal Sassoon

Women in drudgery knew They must be one of four: Whores, artists, saints, and wives. There are composite lives that women always…

— Muriel Rukeyser

From an Islamic point of view, women are as responsible as men to help people finding their way to God (S.W.T), and…

— Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

When women fight for a higher salary, they can often feel guilty. When men fight for more pay, they feel empowered. I've…

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still…

— Alice Bag

“If a woman pushes to get the job done, if she's highly competent, if she focuses on results rather than on pleasing…

— Sheryl Sandberg

We are helping women express themselves and feel awesome about themselves, and I think that does change the course of your day.

— Jennifer Hyman

Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn…

— Sheryl Sandberg

I don’t have a problem with men disposing of their genitals, but it does not make them women, in the same way…

— Julie Bindel

The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that…

— Bell Hooks

“IT IS POSSIBLY WORTH MENTIONING THAT IN FAT CHARLIE’S world, women did not simply turn up. You needed to be introduced to…

— Neil Gaiman

The Marines already have started putting women through infantry training. They've done it for the past couple of years. And it's tough.…

— Renee Montagne

The matriarchal society 1300 years ago in Egypt was a peaceful society; that's where you had no war for thousands of years!…

— David LaChapelle

I think it is about time that equipped women began to take on some of the ethical questions which a male-dominated culture…

— Lorraine Hansberry

Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality…

— Jessica Valenti

“From her handbag she takes a round gilt compact with violets on the cover. She opens it, unclosing her other self, and…

— Margaret Atwood

“It always pisses me off when I’m calling in to some Morning Zoo radio show to promote God-only-knows what—probably this book, so…

— Kathy Griffin

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

— Alice Childress

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

— Sacha Guitry

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

— Robert Graves

No woman needs a man to be strong, but no man should ever physically harm a woman.

— Anonymous

Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.

— Stacy Aumonier

Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights.

— Warren Farrell

Women do not need a knight in shining armor or a Prince Charming to come to their rescue.

— Anonymous

“Anything could happen in the company of a woman whose usual status is ‘apparition’.”

— Margot McCuaig

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

— David Henry Hwang

If women were chemical agents, Mierelle would be the oxygen.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

Women: such a beautiful creature to gaze upon, yet complex to figure out.

— Anonymous

Doormats are rarely valued. Men actually like women who are not that obsessed by the man in their life.

— Reham Khan

I really just want to change the way women think about themselves. A lot of young girls are quite lost.

— Charli XCX

I love the women who are coming back to school and getting their degrees because they're so focused.

— Jill Biden

“The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production.”

— Karl Marx

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

— Crystal Eastman