Feminism Quotes · Page 238

Women, we are so strong! It took me so long to figure that out, but I realized just how strong a woman…

— Jessica White

Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.

— Herman Boerhaave

I love how feminism is often blamed for giving women too many choices. Like this is a bad thing.

— Justine Musk

I think it is important that we respect that women have different political views.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

“The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Any pain that human beings can create, human beings can transcend.”

— Sarah Schulman

It's acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they're considered aggressive and opinionated.

— Madeline Kahn

Feminism doesn't need re-branding. It names a problem and it is an uncomfortable truth for many

— Caroline Criado-Perez

All of us want the same things. We want to be good to the people around us and for our lives to…

— Sheryl Sandberg

I want the government to resign and an emergency government to be proclaimed, preferably made up of women. They can't do worse…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic…

— Samuel Johnson

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants…

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy. It shows us, too, that…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Sometimes I began to wonder if she was taking vengeance on behalf of her ancestor women whom her ancestor men turned into…

— S. A. David

“As far as cosmetics are used for adornment in a conscious and creative way, they are not emblems of inauthenticity: it is…

— Germaine Greer

Investing in girls and women is the smartest thing we can do, and will help us to improve opportunities for all people.…

— Tedros Adhanom

Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine"…

— Elizabeth Gould Davis

Most Jewish feminists and gays that I know remain angry and frustrated by Jewish progressives. Deeply committed to progressive causes, frequently in…

— Irena Klepfisz

“Given our socialization into dependency, women are also poor risk takers. (...) We avoid new situations, job changes, moves to different parts…

— Colette Dowling

They [Oneida people] didn't want to fix problems one at a time. If someone invited them to a feminist convention, their answer…

— Christine Jennings

“But wouldn't [the Spice Girls] have shown a little bit more solidarity if they had at least called themselves feminists? The feminist…

— Marisa Meltzer

“I'm getting stale. I always do this time of year. I keep my nose to the grindestone and put in long hours…

— Joan Reardon

“Feminism? It might change society, but it will certainly not change the man.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.

— Carine Roitfeld

[I think the most about] women. They are a complete mystery.

— Stephen Hawking

There are very few women in the Senate and very few mothers.

— Kerry Kennedy

What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.

— Estelle Ramey

The provision of toilets is a minimum requirement for the dignity of our women.

— Narendra Modi

Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.

— Erin Pizzey

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible

— Margaret Mead

In all cases, I will always hire the best person for the job, and it just so happens that many of those…

— Niki Caro

“I deserve better —such a dangerous, mad thought for a woman to entertain.”

— Meredith Duran

Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically.

— Jane Bryant Quinn

I believe the girls should be better paid but not the same as the men.

— Toni Duggan

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

— Anna Quindlen

“Saudi girls stay home, or they get good jobs or good educations.”

— Alaa Alghamdi

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.

— Anonymous

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

— Gloria Steinem