Feminism Quotes · Page 202

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

— Florence Ellinwood Allen

They say multitasking is a female trait, but it's not about gender; it's about personality type.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

— George Bernard Shaw

There is a lot of speculation about what women are attracted to, and there are a lot of misconceptions.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

— Warren Farrell

There are different chemistries you can have in different bands, and part of that's caused by the gender.

— Susanna Hoffs

Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.

— Madeleine Albright

I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.

— Karen Bass

“A woman’s voice is considered a sexual provocation (kol be-ishah ervah), so that a woman may not read or recite before men.”

— Rachel Biale

“when viagra must be covered but birth control is a burden you know who’s making the rules -we need more women in…

— Shenaia Lucas

Of course women can have it all - if they want it all. I won't hear any defeatist talk. If you just…

— Louise Mensch

By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves…

— Honore de Balzac

The idea of equality is still how I define feminism. I think it's a broad definition that encompasses the variety of experiences…

— Julie Zeilinger

“People often describe the journey of transsexual people as a passage through the sexes, from manhood to womanhood, from male to female,…

— Janet Mock

Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

— Liz Stanley

It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end,…

— Michelle Bachelet

It just struck me as really odd that there were all of these conversations going on about what young women were up…

— Jessica Valenti

I should say that feminism gave me permission to deal with my own emotional life and put it up front in certain…

— Yvonne Rainer

“... the effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul…

— Cynthia Eller

“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up…

— Erica Jong

We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create…

— Karen Armstrong

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have…

— H. L. Mencken

“But here is a sad truth: Our world is full of men and women who do not like powerful women. We have…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Housework has been reduced to a minimum. Even without servants, there is scarcely enough to do to keep women occupied eight hours…

— Van Heflin

It takes one brave woman to implement change and for other women to be able to follow that.

— Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

— Anita Borg

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

— Mahnaz Afkhami

The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.

— Robert Jordan

Sexism definitely exists - you see that in all walks of life.

— Nadine Coyle

“We don’t like it when women get uppity.” “Well,” she said, “that is a bit of a problem, as I am feeling…

— Sarah MacLean

My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.

— Michelle Bachelet

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

— Sarah Waters

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

— George Bernard Shaw

My kids see feminism in action every day, and leading by imperfect example is how I'm raising them.

— Amanda de Cadenet

Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud.

— Rush Limbaugh

With us city girls, there is an assumption that we have the space to raise our voice.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

— Florence Ellinwood Allen

“Moving from phonetics to etymology, ‘vagina’ originates from a word meaning sheath for a sword. Ain’t got no vagina.”

— Inga Muscio

“Man is always trying to create a woman who will fill his needs, and that makes her untrue to herself.”

— Anaïs Nin

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

— Dale Spender