Feminism Quotes · Page 210

Men who get on well with women are usually those who know how to get on without them.

— Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft

I think men and women's burdens and destinies are intertwined.

— Edgar Ramirez

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

— Andrea Dworkin

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal…

— Anonymous

I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.

— Simin Daneshvar

The only place men want depth in a woman is in her decolletage.

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.

— Laura Moser

“You know, all through the centuries, pathetic men have abused strong women who threaten their masculinity,”

— Gillian Flynn

A REAL MAN holds his female up all the time and support even if he know her plan is going to fail…

— Northside_E

There's nobody better to tell you who's a man and who isn't than a woman. Women will spot manliness, or lack of…

— Rush Limbaugh

I do see the ministry of Human Resources Development through the prism of gender. I see it through the prism of capabilities.

— Smriti Irani

In Rwanda, which has gone through a devastating civil war and has a per-capita income of $16 per year, half of members…

— Katty Kay

Do you know how many women in a survey reported experiences of sexual harassment on the job? Eighty percent. It is so…

— Maya Wiley

Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that…

— Yoko Ono

“About the cathouse: the notion that an accepted element in the social order is a whorehouse goes hand in hand with the…

— Joan Didion

If India is to lead the world, if India is to be an advanced nation like America and China, then women empowerment…

— Naveen Patnaik

The media and even, to some degree, leaders of women's organizations don't understand that the women's movement is an absolute part of…

— Betty Friedan

Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions…

— Roxane Gay

One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare,…

— Michelle Bachelet

It was so important that women were involved in 'She's Gotta Have It' because it's about a woman's opinion. It's about her…

— Lyriq Bent

What's wrong with trying hard and showing up and being good at your job? We really need to look at ourselves and…

— Jessica Chastain

One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and…

— Laura Mulvey

This is a wonderful world for women. The richness, the hope, the promise of life today, particularly for women, are exciting beyond…

— Belle S. Spafford

“Does she have a domestic side? Questions we do not ask of powerful men, which shows that our discomfort is not with…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.

— Maurice Sendak

I don't know why there is still any barrier between men and women in terms of achievement and success.

— George Blagden

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

— Maya Angelou

I don't like the word 'feminist.' I don't like the word 'ambitious.' I do like the word 'anti-establishment.'

— Rei Kawakubo

Men hit women because they feel powerful when they do but in reality, they're just showing how weak they really are.

— Anonymous

A woman has to look good, but a man—a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.

— Meir Shalev

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

— George Jean Nathan

It is not up to women of color to save this country from itself. That's on all of us. That's on all…

— Cecile Richards

I wouldn't call myself a feminist. I am just me. I like boxing and acting and doing my charity work.

— Nicola Adams

“Every woman’s heart cannot be opened with words; sometimes you need to use your hands.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.

— Fay Weldon

“There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I believe the U.S. has been way too silent on the brutality, the lack of human rights in the Muslim world for…

— Ron Johnson

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

— Catharine MacKinnon

Women are not strong because we want to be, we are strong because we have to be

— Anonymous