Feminism Quotes · Page 181

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

— Gloria Steinem

If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.

— Edna Ferber

Everyone has been discriminated against or harassed - sexism is real.

— Scarlett Johansson

Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigeria's growth and development.

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Women and girls can do whatever they want. There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish.

— Michelle Obama

I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.

— Gloria Steinem

If the world was run by women, it would be mostly peaceful with heated arguments every 28 days.

— Alec Straub

The only superiority in women that is tolerable to therival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind; but a…

— Thomas Hardy

“I am a scientist who studies the human mind, including the sexual differences in mental faculties, and I am telling you, ten…

— Abhijit Naskar

One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine,…

— Gloria Steinem

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions…

— Isabel Allende

Most women are happier at home! They're pretending that they like working, but they're not making money because they don't stay all…

— Gavin McInnes

“If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to…

— Elaine Gill

I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In…

— Patricia Ireland

“I know that for a lot of people, including a lot of women, the movement for women’s equality exists largely in the…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

As women, we feel we can't ask for things. There's been a lot of research done recently and, more often than not,…

— Christina Hendricks

“And though often forgotten, the more radical wing of the second-wave feminist movement also argued for fundamental challenges to the free market…

— Naomi Klein

“The strain of engaging emotionally with all that misery was exhausting. The kindness and hard work of the care assistants here was…

— Polly Toynbee

“The truth is that the new conception of raunch culture as a path to liberation rather than oppression is a convenient (and…

— Ariel Levy

I think [women] should be armed but should not vote ... women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They…

— Ann Coulter

“...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women…

— Karl Marx

“Women getting run out of tech matters, because it’s where so much of the wealth creation and opportunity in the economy is…

— Sarah Lacy

The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year…

— Ishmael Reed

“88% of women love making their first love making incident with a man seem like an accident.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as a dutchess

— Samuel Johnson

Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love.

— Alicia Machado

The world would be a better place if random animal sounds occurred when women rolled their eye.

— Nikhil Saluja

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I'm thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.

— Norm MacDonald

Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire…

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.

— Charles Dickens

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

— Jane Austen

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

— Sylvia Plath

Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.

— Nelsan Ellis

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

— Eleanor Clift

I think men and women are different - I am not saying better or worse, just different.

— Shabana Azmi

Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.

— Shirley Chisholm

The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.

— Laura Bush

The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.

— Cornel West