Feminism Quotes · Page 236

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

— Bryan Ferry

There are certain women who are sexually driven and they can compartmentalize it from an emotional attachment.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.

— Joyce Carol Oates

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

— Audre Lorde

I think it's important for every woman to have her own money and be independent.

— Jill Biden

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

— Agatha Christie

What you see is what you get. I think women often look at men as projects and try to change us. But…

— Mario Lopez

“Only women understand the sensitivity of the soul, men are ambitious and ruthless.”

— Aporva Kala

... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and…

— Fannie Barrier Williams

“...no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so…

— Jane Austen

It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want…

— Andrew Dominik

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against -…

— Dinah Shore

When women take account of their lives and values to make a change, they should never be mocked or have fingers pointed…

— Brett Cooper

[Hillary Clinton] poses as a feminist, and she's taken money from countries that stone women, kill women, have women . . .

— Rudy Giuliani

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female…

— Anonymous

There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption…

— May Sarton

In India, [in] the great documents like [the] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest [women] making great,…

— Amartya Sen

“We need to reclaim the word 'feminism'. We need the word 'feminism' back real bad. When statistics come in saying that only…

— Caitlin Moran

“Women deserve better than organizations bearing the names of racist rapists funding million dollar campaigns on subway trains. These wealthy middle aged…

— Sonya Renee Taylor

“None of the writers suggest that rape may be morally permissible dependent on “contextual relations.” None of the writers suggest that the…

— Francione, Gary L

“Sometimes I hear feminists call God a She, and I’m like, dude, I am all for equal rights and equal pay, but…

— Karen Alpert

Women are very good at judging the risk and don't want to waste time with losing. So not that they're not as…

— Po Bronson

Women - whether in politics, media or business - can't have it both ways. We can't demand to be judged irrespective of…

— Barkha Dutt

“The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a woman…

— Naomi Wolf

As women, we need to know that we can overpower anyone with our mental strength.

— Nushrat Bharucha

The women are at an advantage - we represent the buying power in this country.

— Sandra Lee

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

— Donna Brazile

“I say that there is no role for women - there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make…

— Brandon Sanderson

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The fact that women are the primary care-givers is a problem for women and men

— Caroline Criado-Perez

I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

— Joyce Meyer

Open source is important to our orgs as a talent pool; we need better representation of women.

— Jane Silber

Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily.

— Ludwig Borne

Women have different challenges. You have to be willing to put in the hours and work harder.

— Elise Stefanik

Be the type of woman a man needs, not the type that needs a man.

— Nishan Panwar

Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.

— Olympe de Gouges

“I want to live in a society where we are all liberated. This is what my feminism looks like”

— Malebo Sephodi

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power

— Gloria Steinem

I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics.

— Evelyn Boyd Granville

I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.

— Norman Mailer