Feminism Quotes · Page 159

There's a lot of pressure on young women. We need more honest women who are willing to talk about their struggles.

— Alexa Ray Joel

We don't often get to see women be powerful and not play the victim.

— Neve Campbell

Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

— Adah Isaacs Menken

I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world.

— Jessica Valenti

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

— Walter Bagehot

If you believe in equality, you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you.

— Emma Watson

Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.

— Margaret Way

I certainly am a feminist but, in my cinema, I don't talk about any 'isms'. I deal only with individuals; even if…

— Aparna Sen

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend…

— Margaret Thatcher

Women tend to have a better track record in investing - when they invest - than men do, because they tend to…

— Sallie Krawcheck

In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for…

— Gloria Steinem

There will always be a battle between the sexes because men and women want different things. Men want women and women want…

— George Burns

“For these women, Hamas’s view of women was laughable. And since they couldn’t hear the appeal of such views themselves, they were…

— Geraldine Brooks

Whether it's Hollywood or Bollywood, sexual harassment is a reality. I've experienced it first-hand, and I know many of my counterparts have…

— Shenaz Treasury

For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say,…

— Maria Mitchell

“I got him' is nonsense in terms of love relationships, and so is 'I lost him'. If we could stop thinking in…

— Germaine Greer

“Feminism is a tremendously underestimated force, viewed in the present context primarily as a woman's concern. The understanding has not yet percolated…

— Terence McKenna

Average male pay is higher than average female pay for a simple reason. Despite decades of enforced equality, women still have babies,…

— Peter Hitchens

Although I haven't experienced violence in a relationship, I know that two women every week in England and Wales are killed by…

— Jemma Kidd

“The assumption that women in hijab are less enlightened or empowered than those rocking daisy dukes is arrogant at best. Feminism should…

— Luvvie Ajayi

“And many women, whether or not they are politically active, ideologically committed feminists, or whether they have simply considered the lives of…

— Rebecca Traister

“A woman will apply to an open job listing if and only if she thinks she meets all—that is, 100 freaking percent—of…

— Jessica Bennett

42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200…

— Gail Kelly

Security for women needs to focussed on every section of the society.

— Soha Ali Khan

“A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.”

— Brandon Sanderson

It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Across all fields, women are generally paid 21 percent less than men.

— Jennifer Lawrence

If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

— A. S. Byatt

“Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.”

— Ransom Riggs

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

— Rachel Kushner

The main trouble with women is that they will just not put the seat back up again.

— Martin Clunes

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Women should do a lot more fighting. I don't think it's fair that we can't get into a good fight...

— Sandra Bullock

They (the women) will always do it, it seems to me... I am woman and I am strong.

— Pat O'Shane

Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly

— Anonymous

The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.

— Robin Morgan

Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life.

— Emma Watson

For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.

— Camille Paglia