Feminism Quotes · Page 175

Any female who can hold her own in a male dominated environment is impressive.

— Edith Bowman

I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.

— Roxane Gay

Long ago when I went to college, campuses were about 70 percent male, and until 1970, it was still nearly 60 percent.

— Phyllis Schlafly

There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't…

— Lauren DeStefano

Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished.

— Mukhtar Ma'i

Women who say it's not O.K. are [interpreted as] wet blankets or sore losers.

— Helen Hunt

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

— Elizabeth Blackwell

“a man cannot embrace a woman’s faults until he loves her. A woman embraces the faults and then falls in love.”

— Kathryn Smith

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued." (From a speech read…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not…

— Felicity Jones

We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can…

— Gertrude Stein

We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the…

— Andrea Dworkin

I'm a feminist because I believe in women... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.

— Warren Farrell

Through the 1990s, 'Reason' was a voice of 'dissident feminism,' upholding the equal dignity of both sexes and supporting the rights of…

— Virginia Postrel

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

By integrating women into particularly military institutes, it cripples the readiness of our defense. Schools like The Citadel train young men to…

— Christine O'Donnell

“A woman is like a universe; there are many things that even she still needs to discover about herself. Men on the…

— Lebo Grand

A lot of women have been whistle-blowers in the past, and a lot of them have just gotten torn down and treated…

— Susan Fowler

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions,…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

“Those who claim that any woman can reprogram her consciousness if only she is sufficiently determined hold a shallow view of the…

— Sandra Lee Bartky

I am not sure that there has been a "lack of progress." On the contrary, the concept of feminism is not only…

— Laura Mulvey

We have not ratified The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Among Women. I think 194 countries have signed…

— Carolyn Maloney

If woman take charge of a relationship then they become the Man, who was suppose to be the leader according to God…

— Glen Rambharack

In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.

— Samina Baig

I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs.

— Jo Grimond

“In 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing country to grant women the vote.”

— Angela Saini

Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old.

— Shelagh Delaney

It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.

— Geena Davis

“talk that TED later named “Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders”). Very”

— Sheryl Sandberg

When it comes to Hillary Clinton, it is really about mobilizing and energizing women voters to turn out to the polls.

— Stephanie Schriock

You don't have that many women in the industry so the lane is wide open.

— Ludacris

The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We don’t have enough young, female antiheroes. We don’t accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men,

— Natalie Dormer

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

— Caitlin Moran

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

— Robin Morgan

There are more good women in the world than there are men worthy of them!

— Margaret Way

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

— Pearl Cleage

I look for roles that show women as independent, informed, and free to make their own decisions.

— Nicole Kidman

A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.

— Neil Strauss