Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men? — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best. — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“Women shouldn't judge each others lives, if we haven't been through one another's fires.” — Lisa Taddeo Copy Share Image
I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The podcast revolution has taught us that women's voices aren't just pleasurable to listen to, they are essential. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
“It became obvious that you had to be a feminist because it was such a ridiculous state of affairs.” — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“Rather than freedom from traditional constraints, then, girls were free to "choose" them. Yet, the line between "get to" and "have to"… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
If you've ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you'll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Sometimes women entrepreneurs are their own challenge, [in terms of] believing in themselves. There is no need to apologise for being ambitious. — Tory Burch Copy Share Image
Hags live. Women traveling into feminist time/space are creating Hag-ocracy, the place we govern. To govern is to steer, to pilot. — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
“There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman’s well-being. Feminism Lite uses the language of “allowing.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very… — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
“the phantom of the man-who-would-understand, the lost brother, the twin --- for him did we leave our mothers, deny our sisters, over… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Oh, blast, this is all so confusing!” she complained. “How is a woman supposed to figure out what a man really wants?”… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“When women with class power opportunistically use a feminist platform while undermining feminist politics that helps keep in place a patriarchal system… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Within a culture possessed by the myth of feminine evil, the naming, describing, and theorizing about good and evil has constituted a… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
I ask myself a lot how other women can be against the ideology that has to do with women empowering other women.… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“After all, as it says on a needlepoint sampler or throw pillow or the occasional bumper sticker: Good girls go to heaven,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image