Feminism Quotes · Page 165

We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.

— Shami Chakrabarti

Hopefully with a woman President the double standard will slowly begin to wane.

— Tinashe

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

— Alphonse Karr

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism.

— Ani DiFranco

Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]

— George Herbert

We're going forward until we have an equitable and safe world for women.

— Mira Sorvino

“As feministas querem reduzir a mulher a um macho mal-acabado.”

— Nelson Rodrigues

Feminism is very much a part of a lot of my student's lives, but they're not going to march about it or…

— Mary Gordon

When evaluating the suitability of a woman for a role, or using certain language in job advertisements, biases can creep in.

— Nicky Morgan

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and…

— Annie Lennox

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie…

— Nigella Lawson

Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power.

— Mary Frances Berry

“The strength for the worker in the new system was in numbers; many men and women resisted, organised, suffered and died to…

— Gabrielle Palmer

Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education…

— Barbara Boxer

“now the question we must ask is...what kind of _practices_ [theology] motivates, what kind of _gaze_ onto others, the guest, the new…

— Namsoon Kang

“it is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of humanity's common life.…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and…

— Rebecca Traister

“I like not living up to the expectations of people who don't like me. I enjoy knowing that my choices won't be…

— Mikki Kendall

I don't think that there's a guy behind the desk at every newspaper saying "No, woman" and sending her on her way,…

— Jessica Valenti

“With many people now acting as if it is time for “a woman” to become president, apparently they have learned absolutely nothing…

— Anonymous

We cannot enter the realm of the heart where one gender, representing half of the human race, is subordinated, suppressed, or forgotten.…

— Anodea Judith

The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In…

— Bonnie Raitt

When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long…

— Kate Millett

“You kind of have to admire her commitment,” Dri says. “Banging for feminism.”

— Julie Buxbaum

“Women think that they can make sad things go away by knowing the reason that they happened.”

— Johanna Skibsrud

I think women in general, we just soldier on. Whatever it takes, you just have to do it. It's your job. Whatever…

— Marcia Clark

“Just because you support equal rights doesn't mean you are a feminist.”

— Hunter Avallone

I 100% want to support the movement, #MeToo and Time's Up. We are a sisterhood.

— Jodie Whittaker

I consider myself conscious of how we're treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist.

— Pam Grier

We will not achieve gender equality in the workplace until we fix our system of parental leave.

— David Lammy

“Saying a womaniser loves women is like saying a fighter ace loves his kills.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.

— Faye Wattleton

Men and woman are not the same. Therefore there are different rules to live by...its not a double standard. Its life.

— Anonymous

“a man is also a woman; he wants to find someone, to give meaning to his life.”

— Paulo Coelho

the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.

— Eleanor Rathbone

The smartest thing a woman can ever learn, is to never need a man.

— Demi Lovato

I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Women aren't trying to do too much. Women have too much to do.

— Mary Blakely

Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs.

— Malin Akerman