Feminism Quotes · Page 196

Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.

— Stephanie Coontz

There is evidence Rand Paul has a real problem with women reporters.

— Ed Schultz

If the men in North do not mend their ways, then women will set them right.

— Kirron Kher

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

— Patricia Ireland

The women's movement in the 1970s led more women into the workforce and got them closer to pay equality.

— Rebecca Traister

A country that can put men on the moon can put women in the constitution.

— Margaret Heckler

A woman wants emotional security. She wants to know that she can rely on a man to take care of the love…

— Enhance Dreams

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on

— Carol Alt

Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up…

— Doris Lessing

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy,…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old…

— Susan B. Anthony

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not…

— Gloria Steinem

There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.

— Karyn Kusama

I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they're women, they're in positions because they're intelligent…

— Rand Paul

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It's "a 'disorder of "assumption"' - the notion that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically.

— Rush Limbaugh

In the matriarchy, which happens in a little microcosm across the blogosphere, we have these mini 'women in control' societies. And what…

— Gavin McInnes

Our camps and workshops offer a space where girls of color can learn computer science and coding principles alongside their peers, with…

— Kimberly Bryant

I am absolutely behind equal rights but I am also bridging the gap between cultural mentality and society's mindset as there are…

— Hozier

When I grew up, feminism wasn’t something that was really talked about. There’s a really negative stereotype about feminism in the media.…

— Julie Zeilinger

There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or…

— Nora Ephron

“Positive legacy of the 1960s was the revolutions in civil rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, and gay rights, which began to consolidate…

— Steven Pinker

“In the twentieth century the women who wanted to be on their own were some of the best, the honest ones, those…

— Richard Aldington

When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no…

— Mary Heaton Vorse

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

— Sylvia Plath

Women do not want to be dependent on government but want opportunities for all Americans to succeed.

— Mercedes Schlapp

“Louise Colet was a proto-feminist who committed the sin of wanting to make someone else happy.”

— Julian Barnes

Female empowerment is very strong in my life and that's how I am.

— Ava Max

Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

In the late 1950s, the woman's place in society was second-class.

— Annaleigh Ashford

You've already put more than enough energy into worry. That's all women have been allowed to do, historically.

— Ani DiFranco

We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting.

— Amanda Foreman

“up in a salon that’s meant for men the same way a tampon’s meant for men.”

— Nick Thacker

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.

— June Singer

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'

— Ani DiFranco

To protect women in times of war, we must first make sure women receive equal rights in times of peace.

— Martti Ahtisaari

Men are simple creatures. It doesn't take much to please us. The problem is women.

— Tom Cotton

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.

— Susan B. Anthony

Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.

— Gloria Steinem

How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes.

— John Lennon