Feminism Quotes · Page 208

“There are moment of sadness and moment of joy. This is life.”

— Beth Cohen

Men are actually more emotionally affected by relationship troubles than women.They just do a better job of hiding it.

— Anonymous

“They see I’ve got a head on my shoulders, and believe a thinking woman cannot be trusted.”

— Hannah Kent

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

— Jessica Valenti

“What else must we do and say? What else must the oppressed do for a taste of freedom?”

— Malebo Sephodi

“For the real issue under all the fights about other women is the man is unable to commit himself.”

— Shulamith Firestone

“Annie smiled. “The MacKinnon men are very protective of their women.”

— Pamela Clare

What this misguided world and generation needs is a massive group of courageous and caring, wise and unwearying women.

— Elaine A. Cannon

I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called…

— Jessica Valenti

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken…

— Anonymous

A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said,…

— Gillian Jacobs

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when…

— Tori Amos

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women…

— Siri Hustvedt

“A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn…

— Roman Payne

“We women have intuition," Barby said loftily. "I wouldn't expect you to understand. I can't imagine why there aren't more women detectives.”

— John Blaine

Every time a confident, successful woman like Marissa Meyer distances herself from feminism, I think of Athena. Athena women, with all their…

— Justine Musk

I have huge respect for women who go out of their homes and have the courage to make their own destiny. And…

— Shilpa Shetty

While at a biological disadvantage in competitions, women - who even make trips to restaurant bathrooms in pairs - are at a…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

“When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, he shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside, but…

— Rudyard Kipling

“They were sorting, or classifying. It's easy-anyone dressed funny is the enemy, especially if they reject your supremacy or do not acknowledge…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

In so many places in the world, women have been prisoners for so long that they feel they have to scream about…

— Monica Bellucci

Feminism seeks to turn the biggest, bloodiest carnivore in the world - passion - into a right-on cud-chewing vegan. It can never…

— Julie Burchill

Woman must especially devote her energies and abilities toward the industrial and agricultural sciences, seeking to assist mankind in that which is…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

I believe men and women should be afforded the same opportunities.

— Kaitlyn Bristowe

Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.

— Dennis Miller

[Donald Trump ] who has said women don't deserve equal pay unless they do as good a job as men.

— Hillary Clinton

The whole thing about the women is, they lust to be misunderstood.

— Will Rogers

“I mean emotionally, women are like Bruce Lee and we’re like Donald Duck. An’ I think a lotta guys are afraid of…

— Jonathan Ashworth

In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A woman needs a man that knows how to take over at the right time not one she can run over anytime.

— Anonymous

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim…

— Frederick Douglass

The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.

— Ashley Montagu

We have enough trouble with women without giving them M16 rifles.

— Barry Goldwater

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

— Yang Lan

I've always just admired women who were able to navigate through dramatic and comedic waters and sort of do it all.

— Ari Graynor

We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.

— Brenda Ueland

With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon.

— Groucho Marx

At EMILY's List, we're in the business of expanding the political power of women.

— Ellen Malcolm

I think a lot of women wouldn't want to stay in a place where they're being harassed.

— Donald Trump