Feminism Quotes · Page 184

Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.

— Alexandra Potter

It's a shame - we've got so many hilarious women, and think there's a certain repression there.

— Emily Atack

There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

— Gloria Steinem

If Women Make you a Better Person ; I wouldn't want to know what were you like before ..

— Jake

In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.

— Lynn Coady

“Domestic abuse, also called intimate partner violence, is the systematic suffocation of another person's spirit.”

— Joanna Hunter

The more a woman likes her job, the better her self-image and the more she enjoys her life.

— Grace Baruch

“To live a feminist life is to make everything into something that is questionable. The question of how to live a feminist…

— Sara Ahmed

In particular, I want to set a challenge to public bodies and private companies to improve gender balance on their own boards.

— Nicola Sturgeon

I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this [U.S] country and we're seeing what the…

— Eve Ensler

“Isn't that just typical. You're either asking for it, or having it forced upon you without your consent. Who decided women always…

— Nenia Campbell

I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not…

— Ayelet Waldman

“Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him…

— Honore de Balzac

“What's a feminist?" Julie asked. "Someone who thinks women are fish," Barton replied. He was smiling at Lily. "And that men are…

— Dianne Dixon

“Some writers have even argued that it may be possible to wean sex offenders away from their criminal activities through the use…

— Richard Dunphy

When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody…

— Gail Collins

When the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly all those countries had burgeoning democracies, women were still being left out. The big turning…

— Kathy Calvin

I believe that feminists of the more aggressive persuasion are frustrated women unable to find the proper male leadership. If a woman…

— Tony Evans

There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write…

— Annia Ciezadlo

“Part of it was a feminist streak and the other part of it was the ultimate in antifeminism: a deeply rooted need…

— Melanie Neale

We had early on women having the right to vote, then women in the workforce during WWII, just going back in history,…

— Nancy Pelosi

Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge

— Kathleen Wynne

“Better to follow a woman’s example than mindlessly heed the dictates of men.”

— Connie Brockway

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

— Camille Paglia

I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms "woman/man" begin to lose meaning.

— Elizabeth Lesser

When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.

— John Gray

The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.

— Madame de Stael

I think all women want to get out of our own little bubble and challenge a man's world. And I love challenges.

— Jessica Mendoza

Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.

— Gene Tierney

Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.

— Vandana Shiva

It's very important to me to have a female venture capitalist.

— Emily Weiss

Service is an opportunity for young women to really empower themselves.

— Chelsea Clinton

“men needed to explain the basics to him. A How to Deal with Women summit. Nothing would bond the races faster.”

— Danielle Monsch

There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.

— Henry James

Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process...

— Tavi Gevinson

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

— Eckhart Tolle

There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.

— Madeleine Albright