Feminism Quotes · Page 167

Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

— Pearl Cleage

There are already a number of gatherings centered around women of color who are doing inspiring work.

— Kerry Washington

Feminism, as I see it, is not about counting women in key jobs.

— Mona Eltahawy

Communities and countries and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women.

— Michelle Obama

Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.

— Melinda Gates

It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.

— Confucius

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

— Anonymous

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

— Clifford Geertz

I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide…

— Raquel Cepeda

“It [puberty] is not that you lose control of your body so much as that you lose control over the way your…

— Carina Chocano

Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I guess I am a feminist of sorts. I love women so much, and I celebrate the feminine in me because I…

— Steven Tyler

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

— Camille Paglia

“Nevertheless, as Marx notes, it is only when women enter work ‘outside the sphere of the domestic economy’ that transformations in relations…

— Nina Power

We know what to do and we know how to do it, these investments save lives, empower women and girls, strengthen health…

— Babatunde Osotimehin

If you're a set of guys looking to start a company, think about women you could team up with - they will…

— Andrew Yang

It is important to learn from other women. We have a lot to offer and to learn from each other out of…

— Hazel Hawke

One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force…

— George Orwell

“Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty…

— Naomi Wolf

“I believe that feminism has become a political movement that seeks to obtain unlimited rights for woman without corresponding responsibilities via the…

— Mike Adams

“What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women care nothing…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“One of the most popular genital surgeries is labia minora reduction. When a similar procedure is performed on healthy girls in some…

— Julia Scheeres

“We view men’s gifts as vital to the church. In contrast, we caution women to exercise their gifts discreetly to avoid causing…

— Carolyn Custis James

There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet…

— Jules Romains

Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.

— Elizabeth Warren

“You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

— Helen Rowland

Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves.

— Robertson Davies

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

— Saul Bellow

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as…

— Laura Wilkinson

Women are empowered, and they got better jobs than their husbands.

— Eddie Griffin

I think the biggest issue for women in the workplace is men!

— Wendy Williams

I think women have not been terribly kind to other women for a very long time.

— Sarah Lancashire

One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.

— Lisa Kleypas

I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.

— Jill Scott

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

— Hillary Clinton

As CEOs or board members, women are still underrepresented, and that gap is actually growing.

— Gillian Tans

Feminism isn't about curating or policing the boundaries of womanhood.

— Ash Sarkar

The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on.

— Eileen Pollack