Feminism Quotes · Page 195

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

— Vita Sackville-West

“All women know that bridesmaid dresses are a secret plot if the devil.”

— Helena S. Paige

Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.

— Lord Chesterfield

Women are like coconuts. Sometimes you have to hit them really fucking hard before they will spread open.

— Nikhil Saluja

Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times

— Katha Pollitt

I want the men of our nation to stand and take a stand against gender based violence.

— Zozibini Tunzi

(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

— Shulamith Firestone

Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as…

— Mary Daly

Woman dwell always in the palace of unpalatable truth and never by any chance is there a magic talisman to save them…

— William McFee

“I mean, I’m not not a feminist. I mean, I believe I’m a human before I’m a woman.” You say this because…

— Gabrielle Zevin

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much…

— Anonymous

“Because the griots who compose these texts are part of a patriarchal system that frequently devalues women, we should not be surprised…

— Hugh R. Page Jr

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

— Anonymous

Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of…

— Ellen DuBois

“The problem with women was that they were always planning some future that involved you and that you were not aware of,…

— Jean Thompson

Women bring some great qualities to work. We bring risk-awareness. We bring a greater focus on relationships. We bring more holistic decision-making…

— Sallie Krawcheck

Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of…

— Bella Abzug

“I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There…

— Shakira

If I was misogynist, would I hire a woman as my CEO? Probably not. I grew up in Denmark, for crying out…

— Bjarke Ingels

“In order to approximate those shapes and attitudes which are considered normal and desirable, both sexes deform themselves, justifying the process by…

— Germaine Greer

“When did you first feel like a grown woman and not a girl?” We wrote down our answers and shared them, first…

— Tina Fey

If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship,…

— Lana Del Rey

Education is fundamental. And I know some aren't blessed to be afforded the luxury, 'cause as sad as it is in 2016,…

— Eva Marcille

Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I think feminism is the worst thing that ever happened to women. Our job used to be no job. We had it…

— Ali Wong

Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women.

— Christian Rudder

My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.

— Tom Ford

Success to us is not just a girl overseas going to school - but also leading her village to a better future.

— Craig Kielburger

society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

— Shirley Williams

Our society and institutions are built to push men and women into different roles. We need to change that.

— Caroline Criado-Perez

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them

— Peter Ustinov

Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men.

— Warren Farrell

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.

— Susan Faludi

Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]

— Jean de la Bruyere

The silver lining of the Trump presidency is it is an era of activism, and one where women really want to be…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

Too frequently, we see women being pitted against each other.

— Marcia Clark

I have grown up in an environment of equality, so feminism is equality for me.

— Mandira Bedi

“Women clearly felt things more deeply: they read sub-text where men saw only white space.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.

— Fay Weldon