Feminism Quotes · Page 226

“Every man wants a woman who can smile upon him without exception.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

When we know that educating a girl can change the world, why wait?

— Freida Pinto

Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.

— Melinda Gates

“Recognizing that sexism still exists, they said, “is one of the challenges of the new generation.”

— Lynn Povich

I want to help lift women's voices. And I realize, in doing that, I need to use my own.

— Brooke Baldwin

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

— John Calvin

I tend to lean toward female leads who have their guard up, their spikes out.

— V. E. Schwab

Women need to learn to value themselves. But that has to be inculcated in men as much as women.

— Vidya Balan

“If she is efficient and capable or ambitious, it is assumed that she has failed to find satisfaction as a normal woman,…

— Germaine Greer

4 inna de morning deh a restaurant, all a de woman dem a stand inna front. Zulu man a come with the…

— Zulu

Politics is not an isolated, individualist adventure. Women really need to emerge as a power to be the countervailing power to the…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no…

— Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and…

— Richard Whately

Women cannot be equal participants in a society that views sexual assault and sexual harassment the way Donald Trump and his defenders…

— Kirsten Powers

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men…

— Maureen Reagan

Recently we've been hearing a lot about women "having it all." Myself, I think that is not really an accurate description of…

— Sylvia Ann Hewlett

In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great…

— Frederick Douglass

“I asked Hillary why she had chosen Yale Law School over Harvard. She laughed and said, "Harvard didn't want me." I said…

— Alan Dershowitz

There is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls and the empowerment of women... When women are fully…

— Kofi Annan

“Do you think it is fair that guy will make more money doing the same job as you? Does it piss you…

— Jessica Valenti

There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed…

— Frances Wright

It is shameful that there are so few women in science In China there are many, many women in physics. There is…

— Chien-Shiung Wu

Men are suppressing woman politically, philosophically, socially, through denying them education, equal rights, equal employment, and just by setting up a description…

— Frederick Lenz

A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be…

— Carole Bouquet

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

— George Monbiot

I think we're still learning how to write roles for women with power.

— Teresa Ruiz

It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.

— Harry Houdini

If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.

— Martha Roth

Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

— Maureen Reagan

Every man, they say, 'oh my wife is my boss.' So why can't they be bosses at work?

— Masai Ujiri

Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.

— Germaine Greer

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

— Myriam Miedzian

“Men love to tower over their women. It deludes them into thinking they have some power in the relationship.”

— Judith Arnold

I don't consider myself a feminist, but boy, I won't lay down and play dead, ever.

— Tomi Lahren

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem

— Elizabeth Bowen

As women we try so hard to be perfect at everything, all the time. It's impossible.

— Ayda Field

A lot of men were also becoming more attuned and less afraid of women [in the nineties ].

— Dar Williams

Because women get more labor rights than men, meaning they get maternity leave, the employer prefers to hire men.

— Jair Bolsonaro

The day that you get weak for no-good women, that's the day that you bound to fall.

— Robert Johnson

I think - for female or male, it is very challenging on the independent scene.

— Laurel Van Ness