Feminism Quotes · Page 55

The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.

— Sophia Loren

I think women are too valuable to be in combat.

— Caspar Weinberger

I am most certainly a feminist.

— Brenda Brathwaite

“Religion is the last cultural barrier to gender equity.”

— Karen L. Garst

Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.

— Anne Tyler

Even women are perfect at the outset.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I have long ties to the women's community.

— Donna Shalala

Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls.

— Justin Trudeau

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

— Joan Jett

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

— Edna Ferber

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

— Patricia Ireland

Being able to control your reproduction is essential to women's ability to flourish in the United States.

— Rebecca Traister

People like Priyanka Chopra and Kangana Ranaut are really paving the way for successful women.

— Kalki Koechlin

Men hit women because they feel powerful when they do but in reality, they're just showing how weak they really are.

— Anonymous

A woman has to look good, but a man—a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.

— Meir Shalev

I don't like the word 'feminist.' I don't like the word 'ambitious.' I do like the word 'anti-establishment.'

— Rei Kawakubo

As a woman who works in a male-dominated business - Hollywood, definitely, being one of them - I instinctually knew what that…

— Olivia Wilde

“Before we can make seismic professional, economic, and sociological changes, we have to squeeze out of our Spanx and remember how it…

— Sarah Hays Coomer

“But those of Miss Brodie's kind were great talkers and feminists and, like most feminists, talked to men as man‐to‐man. ”

— Muriel Spark

“When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is generally something wrong with her sexual nature. Barrenness itself conduces to a certain virility…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A gender capitalist is someone who takes advantage of opportunities given to people based on their perceived sex or gender.

— Rain Dove

“Freedman and Barnouin reveal the truth in Skinny Bitch, but they encase the truth in lies--women must be skinny to be attractive…

— Kim Socha

You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what…

— Sidney Sheldon

It would have been more comfortable for us as a society if Anita Hill wasn't as intelligent, poised, and credible as she…

— Rick Famuyiwa

As far as feminism is concerned be the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Well then, he said. What are you doing here? I am not sure. Liberty I suppose. I lived so long under constraints.…

— Sarah Perry

It seems inevitable, if unfair, that when a woman is vying for a prominent position in office, her outfit choices will be…

— Leandra Medine

I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the…

— Rebecca De Mornay

Culture does not make people - people make culture. So if it is in fact true that the full humanity of women…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Young women know that something is off; they know that the world is a messed-up place. They know that the world is…

— Jessica Valenti

“Bossy means “given to ordering people around, highhanded, domineering, overly authoritative, dictatorial, abrasive.” ...Could it be that girls are called bossy when…

— Matt Walsh

There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and…

— Lynne Tillman

One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.

— Ian Mckellen

I'm not just a feminist - I'm a feminist plus.

— Buchi Emecheta

Wild women don't get the blues.

— Ida Cox

“Speak gently but look out for your rights.”

— Christine de Pizan

It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.

— Colleen McCullough

I think women are often taken for granted.

— Sheila Johnson

People like to think of feminists as angry.

— Stacy Martin

Empowering women makes weak men.

— John MacArthur