Feminism Quotes · Page 143

As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure

— Lisa Ling

A real woman knows that a man's respect and loyalty are not an upgrade in a relationship but a requirement!

— Anonymous

“He often referred to the female gender in plural form, as if they did not exist except in batches.”

— Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

You can't snap your fingers, and suddenly half of Congress is women.

— Geena Davis

“A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sexism isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn't happen to black and white women the same way.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Is it more fascinating, perplexing, unbelievable that women are entrepreneurs?

— Reese Witherspoon

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

— Michelle Obama

Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bitches like Cleopatra or Helen of…

— Bill Gates

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were…

— Audre Lorde

People will take every opportunity to pay you nothing if you're willing to do your work for free, be you man or…

— Mary Katharine Ham

If women don't lead, nobody else is going to, because nobody else feels as passionately as we do about injustices. We feel…

— Jocelynne Scutt

Conservative feminism is such an artificial term that doesn't mean much to me. For me conservatism means accepting reality. I acknowledge that…

— Kristina Schroder

“We got over feminism, too. At least women did, as soon as they were hired for those high-prestige jobs that only men…

— P.J. O'Rourke

Men think it's a women's word. But what it means is that you believe in equality, and if you stand for equality,…

— Emma Watson

“[T]he definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.”

— Tina Fey

“At first glance, the stewardess appears to have been a reflection of conservative postwar gender roles—an impeccable airborne incarnation of the mythical…

— Victoria Vantoch

“The six of us formed the Women's Society Club exclusively to help Georgie. We promised that we would never turn our backs…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Until woman as she is can drive this plastic spectre out of her own and her man's imagination she will continue to…

— Germaine Greer

“Only the toughest among women will make the necessary next moves, the revolutionary moves, and among prostituted women one finds the toughest…

— Andrea Dworkin

Never have so many men treated women like our foes. They call 'em hoes, but they might as well call them foes,…

— Chuck D

“Years ago, I was yapping to my mother about Buffy and Xena and talking about how great it is that we now…

— Derek Landy

“Wasn't the fight for women's rights based on our demand to be treated the same as everyone else? As we've seen regarding…

— tammy bruce

Women need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than…

— John McCain

“It’s time to be a woman again whose essence is grounded in her sensual feminine identity.”

— Lebo Grand

That's an inspiration for all women to see a woman thinking and moving differently from those around her.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke.

— Kim Hyesoon

Powerful women always interpret hostility as unrequited love.

— Tina Brown

I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think.

— Jessica Valenti

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

— Sara Sheridan

The heart of a woman will never be found in the arms of a man.

— Vanessa Carlton

Many women forget to take care of their most important asset, themselves.

— Senoraroy

The women's movement is just a symptom of basic changes in the economy that are favoring women.

— Helen Fisher

“Even the Greeks—the so called champions of democracy—voted without ever allowing a single woman into the process.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

We need a feminist movement in which the facts of the case trump the identities of the parties involved.

— Bari Weiss

Obviously I’m a feminist. It’s ridiculous that anyone would think other of me.

— Kirsten Dunst

Rebekah Mercer just wanted stuff to happen. She is a difficult and demanding woman to work for.

— Christopher Wylie

There should be no question or no one should get less of an opportunity for being a woman.

— Leah Williamson

“If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.”

— Oscar Wilde

A lot of women I know have found that their ideas may not be taken as seriously as men's.

— Matty Healy