Feminism Quotes · Page 220

But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

— Katherine Dunn

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the level of quality men or women in this world is getting worse!

— Anonymous

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

— Elizabeth Moon

It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.

— Andrea Jeremiah

“Women made civilisation impossible with all their “charm ” all their silliness.”

— Virginia Woolf

Women talk their way through problems; men think their way through.

— Koena Mitra

It is important for women to do something about what they see.

— Roma Tearne

Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.

— Jeannette Rankin

I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what's being proposed…

— John McCain

I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be…

— Mary Harron

Most so-called women's work is not recognized as real activity. One reason for this attitude may be that such work is usually…

— Jean Baker Miller

Most parts for women have them reacting to something a man has done. Women never instigate any action; they only react it.…

— Yvette Mimieux

Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are…

— Sheryl Sandberg

I'm happy to always be included in the list of women. I'd like to be in the sections about female leaders and…

— Jill Soloway

“The world at large is finally waking up to the fact that we can no longer ignore the victims of intimate violence…

— Christiane Northrup

Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this…

— Mary J. Blige

It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the…

— Roxane Gay

“Trusting women means also trusting them to find their way. This isn’t to say, of course, that I think women’s sexual choices…

— Jessica Valenti

“Of course false-rape allegations have happened. My friend Astra Taylor points out that the most dramatic examples in this country were when…

— Rebecca Solnit

“A woman is still beaten every nine seconds in this country, but thanks to the heroic feminist campaigns of the 1970s and…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Every new generation of women, it seems, feminist and housewife alike, is encouraged by popular culture to disavow its forebears and rebrand…

— Carina Chocano

It is not a dirty word, 'feminism'. I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as…

— Cyndi Lauper

What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you…

— Erica Jong

Consider the sexual harassment which continually occurs between a secretary and a boss . . . while objectionable to many women, [it]…

— Walter Block

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

— Michael Rosenbaum

I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what…

— Jennifer Aniston

“The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

— Soren Kierkegaard

I sure do want to make sure women get equal pay for the work we do.

— Hillary Clinton

Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them, they don't like that.

— Milton Jones

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

— Jane Rule

I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.

— Ti-Grace Atkinson

Women's issues are American issues. We want a better economy; we want more jobs.

— Lara Trump

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

— Victor Hugo

“the new age of liberated women and how most women were fighting to pay half the expenses.”

— Anonymous

“Most people find a woman being sweetly loved by her man very lovable.”

— Maggy San Jose-Baas

'Believe women' only works as a rule of thumb when all women are good. That myth falls flat outside Victorian England.

— Bari Weiss

A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.

— Radclyffe Hall

“Forget professional,” Penny said. “Tonight, you and I are just man and woman like Adam and Eve, Tarzan and Jane.”

— Shafter Bailey

“Why in the age of feminism do we still use the phrase “women and children”?”

— Charles Krauthammer