Feminism Quotes · Page 180

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

— Anonymous

Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.

— Colleen Hanabusa

I've met some very powerful, amazing women in this business but they always seem to be just underneath the man.

— Naughty Boy

A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude problem

— Boonaa Mohammed

Going to school and learning feminism is one thing and living feminism is another.

— Richa Chadha

The most important problem for our world to solve is the inequality of men and women.

— Frederick Lenz

“Women who are in no rush to respond to a world that’s only conceived them as its consequence.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

“the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed”

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism…

— Tavi Gevinson

We live in a capitalist society and if we're talking about the people at the bottom of the food chain, it's women…

— Zawe Ashton

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to…

— Julie Burchill

I have a dream that, one day, maybe we'll have more women in the Senate than there are victims of Harvey Weinstein's…

— Amy Klobuchar

Misogyny - and racism - are 'hidden in plain sight,' and the burden of eliminating them should fall on the institutions, not…

— Nell Scovell

The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science,…

— Doris Lessing

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken…

— Isabel Allende

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it…

— Toni Morrison

All things being equal, I would choose a woman over a man in order to even the balance of power, to insinuate…

— Anna Quindlen

The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly…

— Ellen Key

I think there's something inherently different about working with females. I mean, it's just a different way of looking at life, being…

— Melanie Griffith

Despite girls' sparkling resumes - including rates of college enrollment and high school grades that outstrip boys - sexism is a barrier…

— Rachel Simmons

Don't compromise quickly. Women are more likely to automatically take the first offer on the table because we're more likely to feel…

— Jessica Bennett

Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women…

— Molly Ivins

For so long, women have been waiting to get recognized. The world doesn't work that way. We need to teach girls that…

— Reshma Saujani

I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman…

— Laverne Cox

“When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her…

— Mark Lawrence

When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]

— Publilius Syrus

“She was the rare feminist, possibly the only feminist, with an unabashed commitment to male supremacy.”

— Laura Shapiro

A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began.

— Elvis Presley

Women were always complications, bless their perverse little hearts.

— Linda Howard

If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.

— Joseph Joffre

“Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality”

— Sinéad O'Connor

“If you are a woman who has chosen not to have children, society will always ask you to justify it.”

— Gloria Steinem

“Leave it to a woman to notice all of the little details that men often ignore.”

— Kenneth Eade

It's great to see women standing up in their own line of work and fighting for fair value.

— Alex Morgan

“an audience is half women and half men, women worry about the reaction of the men around them. But”

— Gloria Steinem

I wait on white ladies who walk right out the bedroom wearing nothing but they personality...

— Kathryn Stockett

“the day women are allowed to learn to read and write the world will become ungovernable.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Women living their lives around the world, and the majority of the world is not white.

— Anna Holmes

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

— Joan Jett