It's so wonderful that women continue to break down barriers and change societal expectations, but women still suffer discrimination for their gender,… — Sasheer Zamata Copy Share Image
I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they… — Henry James Copy Share Image
One thing standing in the way of further progress for many men is the same obstacle that held women back for so… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
It's not enough for women to speak out on the issue - for the message to be strong and consistent, women's voices… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
I remember being on a red carpet and they put the mic to us and asked 'are you feminists?' and we panicked.… — Perrie Edwards Copy Share Image
That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Whether it is crimes against women, whether it's discrimination against women, whether it's just social bias against women - these things should… — Farhan Akhtar Copy Share Image
Dog whistles about women who want handouts are simply an acceptable way to say that women are not worth as much as… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
“The specific character of [women's] oppression cannot be explained away by equating different situations through superficial and childish simplifications[:] It is true… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
“Then there’s emotional labor. Now, that’s a good one. It describes all the unpaid, uncounted, often unseen work that people—overwhelmingly women—perform to… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
What shocked me was three different anti-prostitution feminists asking me to justify that I had been a sex worker, to prove it.… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is,… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
“Chief Johnson has full faith on us. Which means if I can complete this task and hunt down the murderer, not only… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
the new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“Now, it’s undeniably true that male writers (including yours truly) are generally and commercially allowed to write about “girl stuff” without being… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
When we talk about equal pay for equal work, women in the workplace are beginning to catch up. If we keep going… — Lya Sorano Copy Share Image
The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
I think that there are more opportunities for young women in America than there are in Tanzania. But I also think there… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Modern-era feminists believe that there is no inherent difference in men and women, that it's all the way they're raised. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I don't work with men who are antagonistic to the liberation of women. I do work with quite a number of men… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Imagine the day when girls everywhere won't have to fight for the right to be recognized for their great work or their… — Julie Foudy Copy Share Image
I think there's a sense of power women don't get till we're older when we say, 'This is the line, and you're… — Claudia Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The problem is that, partly because we are women, a large measure of our happiness depends on our relationships - including, unavoidably,… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
“Femininity is depicted as weakness, the sapping of strength, yet masculinity is so fragile that apparently even the slightest brush with the… — Gwen Sharp Copy Share Image
Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute… — Wilma Scott Heide Copy Share Image
Let us stop pathologizing masculinity. Instead, let us appreciate the endless ways by which men and women are similar to one another,… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
Startups run by women still receive venture capital funding at a much lower rate than companies run by men, and there are… — Randi Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
“We all know that it is women who make the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I try to engage women who are thinking about running for office or up-and-coming leaders to embrace the power they do have,… — Laphonza Butler Copy Share Image
... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
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