Feminism Quotes · Page 211

Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.

— Wilma Mankiller

Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix.

— Amy Poehler

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

— Bella Abzug

I am an opinionated feminist. I can never say or do anything against women.

— Bhumi Pednekar

Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist…

— Sarah Pinborough

My life has always been an example for women and girls and their economic empowerment and I want to continue that.

— Laphonza Butler

In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

— Felicity Jones

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

— Helen Reddy

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is…

— Christine de Pizan

To awaken chivalry we must return to femininity. We must stop doing the masculine things and become the gentle, tender, dependent women…

— Helen Andelin

Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the…

— Christine Pelosi

It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

“Many efforts on behalf of animals will qualitatively improve humans' living conditions as well, which is likely to be the case.”

— Carol J. Adams

With a measly 18 percent of our Congress composed of women, the U.S. ranks just 77th in the world in terms of…

— Jackie Speier

There's a lot that needs to be fixed in dating for men and women in the U.S. - there's a lot of…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and…

— Laura Bush

The women's movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so,…

— Bonnie Raitt

“Carly Fiorina took over Hewlett-Packard shortly before the tech bubble burst. Anne Mulcahy got a shot at being the first female CEO…

— Jessica Bennett

Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It…

— Ban Ki-moon

While gender stereotypes can have negative impacts on men as well, the vast majority of structural gender inequality: socially, politically, professionally and…

— Laura Bates

Competition gives birth to a lot of success, and if no one ever challenged you, you wouldn't go anywhere. It makes sense…

— Lilly Singh

“Assimilation of the feminine side is indeed a decisive problem in a man's individuation, but it remains his "private affair" since our…

— Erich Neumann

Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness…

— Phyllis McGinley

“We’re indignant that men get paid more than women for doing the same work, and that white Americans earn more than black…

— Rutger Bregman

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.

— Francoise Sagan

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.

— Judith Anderson

Every woman should recruit a female friend to take up golf so there will be more women available to play.

— Paula Creamer

Women should have the same rights and respect and paychecks and everything, you know, they're human beings.

— Bianca Balti

Education gives girls the knowledge, experience, and confidence to play their rightful role in society.

— Tedros Adhanom

Convergence and the blurring of lines across industries creates the opportunity for women to really excel.

— Lynne Doughtie

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

— Constance Baker Motley

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

— Christine Pelosi

“Without the love of a woman, it is impossible to have a manly world.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

There aren't many women now I'd like to see as President - but there are fewer men.

— Clare Boothe Luce

A man cannot feel the worth of a woman who doesn't know how to respect herself.

— Vikrant Parsai

Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past

— Audre Lorde

Women bond differently, and I dont think men understand that.

— Julie Garwood

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

— Dorothy Day

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

— Erin Andrews