If women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms, or to nibble at any side of the apple of… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits… — Plato Copy Share Image
Especially in our society, for a woman to be ambitious and controlling, that's a negative. Whereas me as a person, I don't… — Kim Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“In a story, you must always listen for the voice you cannot hear, the one that has been ignored or silenced. In… — Patricia Storace Copy Share Image
Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
For the most part, I've sat on the sidelines over the years during the endless debates about how we need to do… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
“If anyone's interested in the alleviation of poverty... the only thing we know definitely works is giving women control over their own… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Chapter 11: Working Together Toward Equality For a long time, the focus has been on making sure women have the choice of… — Thompson, Natalie Copy Share Image
“While we’re defining things, let’s take a moment for feminism: “the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the political, economic,… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why,… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
A woman's greatest and most perduring failure will be her failure to love. It is certainly not without significance that so many… — Mother Mary Francis P.C.C Copy Share Image
“I should like you also to reflect that its events could have taken place only in a world where man considers himself… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Woman cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appea something that never could exist without a… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone… — Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
For me emancipation will only be truly reached if a woman can wear makeup and skirts without having her abilities doubted as… — Kristina Schroder Copy Share Image
Women, as the minority, have to prove their worth all the time. That's the reason we tend to over-prepare, over-study, over-anticipate. I… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
Research conducted throughout the world shows gender balance in top positions contributes to improved competitiveness and better business performance. — Beth Brooke Copy Share Image
Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
“The real revolution is not in overthrowing governments, but in dismantling the systems of silence and fear that hold women back” — Hagir Elsheikh Copy Share Image
A lot of people characterize women as more cautious. I don't think that's an inappropriate characterization, but that's not a natural thing… — Abigail Tarttelin Copy Share Image
I want to change how women think of and feel about marketing. It not only helps women get the results they want,… — Marie Forleo Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
You cannot stop what the public want. The public want two strong women in the final round and then a woman prime… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
The press always causes a certain amount of hesitance for people who are considering entering public life. So simply encouraging women to… — Kerry Healey Copy Share Image
We reasoned that the men would find it difficult to vote against the women in their home states when a woman was… — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's… — Tory Burch Copy Share Image
There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Manspread, mansplaining, manterrupting - all of it, whether conscious or not, diminishes women's voices, minds, and bodies. — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
“Feminization from a behavioral psychology perspective, is nothing less than a socialized effort in deliberate behavioral modification of men’s natural drives and… — Rollo Tomassi Copy Share Image
All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“Teach your daughters their battle cries are needed far more than their silence and hear them deafen the world with their fearlessness.” — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a -… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
