Feminism Quotes · Page 158

If we succeed in empowering girls, we'll succeed in everything else.

— Desmond Tutu

A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.

— Judith Martin

Prem Bubula, I have told you that a woman is to be loved, not understood.

— Rajneesh

“If there was no woman in this world there would be no prophecy ”

— Hamza Khan Takkar

When I walk the streets, kings and queens step aside, every woman I meet, they all stay satisfied.

— George Thorogood

“getting angry or giving in when a woman tests you results in automatic failure.”

— Bruce Bryans

We must respect women's personal decisions about their health, not dictate to them.

— Richard Cordray

Women are 1/2 the world population but 3/5 of those living in extreme poverty.

— Minka Kelly

I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not love a man…

— Diana Rigg

Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission…

— Phyllis Schlafly

In the '90s, there was always this continuous pitting of women against each other in the media, trying to make them battle…

— Charli XCX

I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing.

— Roxane Gay

Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as…

— Paulo Freire

You have to protect a woman. You dont damage her body, You dont damage her mind, and most of all, you dont…

— Jhiess Krieg

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That…

— Robert Bly

I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility…

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

I believe that a woman should always remain a woman and nothing feminine should be alien to her. At the same time,…

— Valentina Tereshkova

The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have…

— Gerda Lerner

There's something to be said about just being vulnerable. Every woman has gone through something in her life that has been an…

— Ashley Graham

I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world. I think, though, for Western feminism and…

— Jessica Valenti

And I would say that the main thing that I faced as a female in this industry was being underestimated. But being…

— Nita Strauss

I think a lot of women who are celebrities and who are very beautiful have terrible problems with their men being very…

— Anna Biller

There's still this underlying image of women that they should fulfil a certain role. It's no accident that a lot of men…

— Jo Brand

There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study;…

— Adam Weishaupt

Men feel they have a sense of power and entitlement over women.

— Kirron Kher

When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women

— Victoria Principal

I can't think of anything better than being considered a poster girl for intelligent women.

— Rachael Stirling

“But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.”

— Thomas Hardy

“There is a change coming I think in the lives of girls and women. Yes, but it is up to us to…

— Alice Munro

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

— Christopher Lasch

Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people.

— Laura Riding

Men look at a woman's behind and think,Wow, what an ass! Women look at a man's face and think the same thing.

— Anonymous

Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

— Dee Dee Myers

“Many women spend their lives pretending to be stupid because their husbands can’t handle an equal!”

— Jentezen Franklin

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.

— Thomas Adcock

The world has become more diversified, with women becoming a real power of change.

— Dalia Grybauskaite

“Most women got at least some cockamamie in ‘em, but you are head-to-toe cockamamie,”

— Kristen Ashley

Men with anger do not know how to deal with unreasonable, pushy people, particularly women.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

— Carly Fiorina

“The greater part of a men who speak ill of women are speaking of a certain woman.”

— Remy de Gourmont