Feminism Quotes · Page 206

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

— Evita Peron

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

— Franz Grillparzer

I think people don't give young women enough credit, really.

— Hope Sandoval

Women who don't think they can get a neat guy hang onto losers because something is better than nothing.

— Laura Schlessinger

Nothing protects women from the patriarchy of military regimes.

— Mona Eltahawy

... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.

— Nicole Brossard

Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.

— Bertha Knight Landes

“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.          —Lois Wyse, author and columnist”

— Valerie Young

I honor every woman who has strength enough to step out of the beaten path when she feels that her walk lies…

— Harriet Hosmer

Women are focused on getting things done and bring fresh perspectives and innovative approaches to a political system that's crying out for…

— Amy Klobuchar

Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

Electing Democratic pro-choice women in the executive offices at the state level is incredibly important to ensuring that we can protect and…

— Laphonza Butler

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

I think we were all born feminists because we all faced discrimination since we can remember, never pertaining to a group, so…

— Teri Gender Bender

Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing…

— Judith Thurman

“Because misogynists are the best of men.” All the poets reacted to these words with hooting. Boccaccio was forced to raise his…

— Milan Kundera

Work of all kinds is got from poor women, at prices that will not keep soul and body together, and then the…

— Catharine Beecher

When women and men understand that working to eradicate patriarchal domination is a struggle rooted in the longing to make a world…

— Bell Hooks

Claims have been made that I've been on a strict workout routine regulated by co-stars, whipped into shape by trainers I've never…

— Scarlett Johansson

Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically,…

— Bell Hooks

The liberation of women has brought a lot of equality to the man, in the emancipation of the man as a bulldog;…

— Mario Testino

Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The…

— Karen Finerman

I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict… ever since I became loosely involved…

— Nora Ephron

Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.

— Sherry Argov

Women are very comfortable giving to charities or things they believe in, but not as much political givers.

— Ronna McDaniel

That's our role as women when we come into a relationship, to respect and honor your man.

— Erica Mena

Oh my gosh, women have it so much harder than men. If you ask me the differences are professional as well as…

— Gail Kim

A woman has just as much right in this world as a man and can get along in it just as well…

— Carole Lombard

“God, what we women have to put up with; and I’m not even allowed to complain.”

— Christina Stead

People like Priyanka Chopra and Kangana Ranaut are really paving the way for successful women.

— Kalki Koechlin

Being able to control your reproduction is essential to women's ability to flourish in the United States.

— Rebecca Traister

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

— Edna Ferber

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

— Patricia Ireland

“Women’s rights and economic development within a country are highly correlated.”

— Gregg Hurwitz

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

— Nicolas Chamfort

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

— Joan Jett

A real man will treat their lady with the respect that they deserve

— Josephine

That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.

— Alice Childress

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

— Natalie Imbruglia