Feminism Quotes · Page 153

“A man enjoys the happiness he feels, and a woman the happiness she gives.”

— A.J. Rich

A man usually falls in love with the woman who asks the kind of questions he is able to answer.

— Ronald Colman

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

— George Eliot

Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

— Padma Lakshmi

What draws men and women together is stronger than the brutality and tyranny which drive them apart.

— Millicent Fawcett

Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.

— Christina Stead

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

— Kofi Annan

“But it would have made them suspect. Women who have power are always feared,”

— Libba Bray

“Women of all groups were measurably more likely than their male counterparts to vote for equality, health, and education, and against violence…

— Gloria Steinem

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader…

— Michelle Bachelet

Christina Hoff Sommers is a self-identified feminist and registered Democrat with a Ph.D. in philosophy and a wicked sense of humor.

— Bari Weiss

Gender Benders, Beware,” in which she opined that “I don’t have a problem with men disposing of their genitals, but it does…

— Julie Bindel

Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

Yeah, maybe that's the way to solve the gender inequality that's naturally in relationships: to have a lot more power in the…

— Celine Song

As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have…

— Victoria Osteen

All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man…

— Alan Jay Lerner

When I joined Uber, the organization I was part of was over 25% women. By the time I was trying to transfer…

— Susan Fowler

Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for…

— Betty Friedan

It was only when I got to college that I realized that the rest of the world didn't run the way my…

— Joss Whedon

We do look for inspiration amongst our own sex. Why not? You go into temples and they're full of all the lineage…

— Tenzin Palmo

“The social invisibility of women's experience is not "a failure of human communication." It is a socially arranged bias persisted in long…

— Joanna Russ

Every woman dreams of a workplace where her boss doesn't suggest they grab a drink after work, where there isn't that colleague…

— Katty Kay

I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have…

— Germaine Greer

I know that's a vague answer, but you just have to really pedal yourself around town and attempt to not get too…

— Anna Faris

“Men and women ain't lumps of sugar. They don't melt because the water is sometimes warm.”

— Anthony Trollope

Clearly, there is a gender imbalance when it comes to venture capital and entrepreneurship.

— David Cohen

A woman wants a man that is not just out for sex. She wants a man who is out for her mind…

— Enhance Dreams

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

— Oscar Wilde

When women can't climax, it's our fault, but when we can't get an erection, we have to go to the doctor.

— Carlos Mencia

I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

I stand by all the women who have had to deal with inappropriate behavior of any sort.

— Momina Mustehsan

Equal pay for equal work isn't, 'Here, I'll give this to you.' It's confidence, it's participation.

— Phil Murphy

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

— Julian Barnes

If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If the world was taking care of women, women would take care of the world.

— Jane Roberts

I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.

— Samina Baig

The scope of the history of women is so underplayed and not told as often as it should be.

— Tamlyn Tomita

Ever since I could remember, women's issues have been pretty urgent.

— Nancy Wilson

In India, women are respected the most. Mothers, wives, sisters, daughters.

— Bappi Lahiri

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala