Feminism Quotes · Page 224

We know that companies which have more women in leadership positions have a better performance.

— Gillian Tans

Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.

— Taylor Caldwell

“It's the 21st century. I am not submissive. I can own property. You cannot call me exotic.”

— The Thoughtful Beast

“You cannot occupy a proper place on earth without wisdom. It is the principal thing you must have.”

— Patience Johnson

Men are hugely significant to me and to many of the women I interview.

— Amanda de Cadenet

Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself

— Anonymous

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

— Marguerite Duras

It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.

— Gloria Steinem

By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire was supplying more than…

— Saul David

“Women can say what they want about guys not listening because we are too busy trying to fix the problem. Women are…

— Jack Gunthridge

We are fighting misogynists in every culture. My solution is to listen to the women in each community and amplify their voices.

— Mona Eltahawy

Rightly or wrongly, as a woman in politics, you're being judged for what you're wearing, and people are paying attention to that…

— Betsy Hodges

Corporate men and women, once divided by striking differences in opportunity for career growth, have come to share career chaos.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Women tell us that they do feel patronized. They do feel like they don't have the time and the space to have…

— Sallie Krawcheck

“Three Ships folk know that what a person has for a mind is more important than what is between their legs. Three…

— Robin Hobb

The best way to improve economic prospects for women is to improve job prospects for the men in their lives, even if…

— Phyllis Schlafly

If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in…

— Wyndham Lewis

I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up…

— Dolly Parton

“But what can women do in times of war? They help, they cheer, they inspire, and if their cause is lost they…

— Zane Grey

No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But…

— Kamila Shamsie

“Feminism, as of late, has suffered from a certain guilt by association because we conflate feminism with women who advocate feminism as…

— Roxane Gay

I am a feminist. I'm trying to show the relationships between men and women, always the structural relations, not individual villains. I'd…

— Alix Kates Shulman

“Walter Mignolo terms and articulates _critical cosmopolitanism, juxtaposing it with globalization, which is a process of "the homogeneity of the planet from…

— Namsoon Kang

“Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the…

— Anna Julia Cooper

I have strived to empower women and girls throughout my entire career.

— Gretchen Carlson

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.

— Cecile Richards

Men always try to keep women out of business so they won't find out how much fun it really is.

— Vivien Kellems

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

— Phyllis Schlafly

I know my audience, and it's a bunch of women looking for someone to advocate for them every single day.

— Alex Cooper

“I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch”

— Joe Haldeman

Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

— Merle Shain

There are more men than women in mental hospitals...which just goes to show who's driving whom crazy.

— Hussein Nishah

“A man who fears a woman's strength is weak; a boy who embraces a woman's power is strong.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I personally believe that violence against women in our society is not going anywhere.

— Laeta Kalogridis

They always say some women like to fix people. I don't like to fix people, but you like a challenge.

— Aisha Tyler

“Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The woman who takes a woman lover lives dangerously in patriarchy.

— Cheryl Clarke

“It takes a great woman to respect the little man in her child, and the little child in her man.”

— Amit Howard

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

— John Stuart Mill

It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.

— Catherynne M. Valente