Feminism Quotes · Page 241

A girl knows her limits, but a wise girl knows she has none.

— Marilyn Monroe

Most women are motivated so I act accordingly But this is so refreshing that it means a little more to me

— Drake

A man falls for a woman who makes him feel good and who is exciting and fun to be around - even…

— Anonymous

Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.

— Kiki Smith

Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world,

— Padma Lakshmi

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

— Margaret Atwood

Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.

— Hillary Clinton

Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.

— Camille Paglia

I feel that women should start to get to be recognized more because for some reason not all men want to recognize…

— Donna Strickland

If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre…

— Grace Hartigan

In 'UnREAL', for me, just being so openly feminist, just being so overtly, like, 'This show is about women who are not…

— Marti Noxon

Women are interested in relationships and how other societies manage those relationships. They may have been constrained in what roles were open…

— Margaret MacMillan

I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that…

— Jessica Valenti

“I've always believed that if women could only collectively harness the power that they have then they'd rule the world.”

— John Boyne

In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have…

— Amartya Sen

You had a generation of women, of which I'm part, where it was a stigma to be associated with feminism; there was…

— Nancy Dubuc

“In any East Asian culture, you will find that women have a very tangible power within the household. This is often rejcted…

— Sandra Buckley

While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as…

— Ellen Willis

The idea that women are actually getting some jobs - whoopee. I can't say that I celebrate it without a hint of…

— Anjelica Huston

“Lifestyle feminism ushered in a notion that there could be as many versions of feminism as there were women. Suddenly the politics…

— bell hooks

South Korea first allowed women into the military in 1950 during the Korean War. Back then, female soldiers mainly held administrative and…

— Kim Young-ha

“By the 1980s beauty had come to play in women’s status-seeking the same role as money plays in that of men: a…

— Naomi Wolf

The key thing is to ensure that we give the criminal-justice system the tools it needs, so that women's rights are turned…

— Jon Kyl

Having a CEO, having that person run a news corporation who's female, is already a talking point.

— Harris Faulkner

I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds…

— Martha Stewart

“There is no true femininity without sensuality. Otherwise it’s called feminism.”

— Lebo Grand

Just because you are a woman doesn't mean you have to suffer more. We have to get that idea out of our…

— Yalitza Aparicio

Women are the social conscience of a country. They hold our societies together.

— Rajiv Gandhi

Powerful positions are male-dominated, so it is unsurprising that everything else follows suit.

— Speech Debelle

I want to try to do something for women in physics worldwide.

— Mildred Dresselhaus

“It takes embodying your true sensual nature to actually be in your true femininity.”

— Lebo Grand

Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.

— Samuel Rogers

“There should be no such thing as a class of females vulgarized by the necessity of finding daily amusement.”

— George Gissing

A woman with a woman's viewpoint is of more value when she forgets she's a woman and begins to act like a…

— Leonor Kretzer Sullivan

Women, healed and whole, will find undreamed resources in themselves.

— Madonna Kolbenschlag

“The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.”

— John Fowles

It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.

— Maya Angelou

Great women, in partnership with great men, will continue to take us forward.

— Richard Edelman

There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.

— Germaine Greer