Feminism Quotes · Page 178

Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism.

— bell hooks

In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

— Bertha Knight Landes

Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Even if man could understand women he still wouldn’t believe it”

— AW Brown

Sometimes As Women We Give More Than We Should, To A Man Who Dont Treat Us Good

— Fantasia

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.

— Dolly Parton

It should go without saying that women aren't carnival prizes to be won.

— Cord Jefferson

Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.

— Helen Fisher

I have always been drawn to strong and interesting women, people who have navigated that world before you and maintained their integrity…

— Janet McTeer

Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of…

— Saint Augustine

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways…

— Karen DeCrow

Women who have successfully run that gantlet to get the care they needed or wanted are heroic. But it's clear they should…

— Jonathan Capehart

Women have that weird way of trying to be feminist. You know, like 'hear me roar.' But what they really want is…

— Leslie Bibb

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and…

— Erica Jong

Entrepreneurs - both women and men - need equal and fair access to finance - to create new businesses, to reach to…

— Arancha Gonzalez

The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“I get angry when women disavow feminism and shun the feminist label but say they support all the advances born of feminism…

— Roxane Gay

I think the most important thing... is leadership. It's something that has been lacking in young women and girls for a very…

— Zozibini Tunzi

Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the…

— Warren Farrell

Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a…

— Ann Oakley

Domestic violence can be so easy for people to ignore, as it often happens without any witnesses and it is sometimes easier…

— Honor Blackman

“why it shou'd create more surprise, to see [a lady] preside in a council of war, than in a council of state.…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

“I’ve always found the idea of 'saving' your virginity intriguing: it’s not as if we’re packing our Saran-wrapped hymens away in the…

— Jessica Valenti

You cannot forget about your femininity. You don't have to compete with men in that respect.

— Carolina Herrera

for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“... we know very well women scarcely ever jilt men; ‘tis men who jilt us.”

— Thomas Hardy

I'm so tired of this notion that women only need to support women. Why can't we all support each other?

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

— Anthony Trollope

I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.

— Jackee Harry

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

— Juvenal

“...the women are drinking and laughing inside somewhere, Wallis guesses, as manless as these men are without women.”

— Sheri Holman

Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.

— Ayrton Senna

The fight for women's rights is all our fight. It always has been.

— Jonathan Capehart

I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism,

— Shashi Deshpande

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

— Karin Slaughter

Honestly, I do believe in the power of women supporting each other.

— Amanda de Cadenet

“Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.”

— Abhijit Naskar

You don't have to be in the power business to be a powerful woman.

— Geisha Williams