Feminism Quotes · Page 227

I know there are a lot of women who are afraid of driving on highways.

— Sandra Cisneros

It was a Labour prime minister who appointed the first black male and female cabinet ministers.

— Chuka Umunna

The power of women united, I am again reminded, is an invincible thing.

— Sarah Strohmeyer

“Why is this the "new feminism" and not what it looks like: the old objectification?”

— Ariel Levy

It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.

— Cecile Richards

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

— Hortense Calisher

“The power of a woman is in the tears she sheds, and the power of a man is wiping those tears while…

— Michael Jones

We Shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women

— Barack Obama

Women's rights was thought of as a Western concept. Now people do talk about women's rights - political parties talk about it,…

— Asma Jahangir

I think in the United States we have a different standard for what equality means for women that isn't really that comparable…

— Katie Pavlich

Even though I had a good income from my lectures, no one would give me a loan. The insanity almost drove me…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Antiabortion rules disproportionately harm women of color and low-income women of every ethnicity, affecting their economic capacity and threatening their very lives.

— Stacey Abrams

People spend a lot of time talking and thinking about how members of the opposite sex look, but very little time paying…

— Leonard Mlodinow

There are still very few companies run by women these days. And, clearly, there are many reasons for that, including what many…

— Judy Woodruff

“We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read.…

— Louise Doughty

We need to explore why men fear feeling vulnerable. A women can encourage the men in her life to find the courage…

— Ko Hayashi

Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“I overhear the soldiers whispering. That terrorist looks a bit butch. They laugh. I turn to glare right into their mindless sheep…

— Claudia Salazar Jiménez

During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City, the most…

— Warren Farrell

“Men theorize about love, but women are more often love's practitioners. Most men feel that they receive love and therefore know what…

— Bell Hooks

Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy, I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15…

— Christina Hendricks

When you're in a woman in a male-dominated industry, in an industry that's not built for you to have a sustainable life,…

— Ayo Edebiri

“When a woman reads a romance novel, she is putting her own pleasure first. That small act of rebellion is perceived as…

— Maya Rodale

Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation,…

— Bell Hooks

No one's more feminist than me, but you can still be smart, bright, and attractive.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.

— Jessica Valenti

If we ever get into war, only the children must evacuate. Women must fight like the equals they are!

— Nikhil Saluja

I think us as women, naturally, we give more than what we get.

— Erica Mena

Don't be a Woman who needs a Man ; Be the Woman a Man needs.

— Anonymous

In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

— Ariel Gore

In reality, when it comes to female frontbenchers, Labour are still starting the race well in the lead.

— Cathy Newman

A woman should be allowed to be whoever and whatever she wants to be and she should be respected for that.

— Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters

I am keen to create opportunities for women and youth leaders. I want to get women voters registered and protected.

— Reham Khan

For years, despite my inner doubts, I represented to others my choice to veil as a feminist one.

— Mona Eltahawy

Having women who are already successful take the leap of faith to help younger women is critical.

— Caroline Ghosn

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

— Joanna Russ

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

— Cesare Pavese

I believe in women's rights, of course. But I'm not a fem libber in the bra-burning sense.

— Jean Marsh

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

— Anonymous