Feminism Quotes · Page 89

As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.

— Wyndham Lewis

I wish we weren't fighting all the time to protect women's rights, to protect women's health.

— Hillary Clinton

Multiculturalism and academic feminism started disparaging works of genius on the basis of their authors' sex and race.

— Heather Mac Donald

We women are great at underselling ourselves and not so great at owning our awesome.

— Julie Foudy

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

— John McGraw

The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.

— Tammy Duckworth

Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?

— Gene Wolfe

If you're someone who genuinely believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the…

— Joss Whedon

And one way that many women can feel like they're more protected is to be successful on their own, to be financially…

— Teresa Ruiz

“Men won't easily give up a system in which half the world's population works for next to nothing...[and recognizes that]precisely because that…

— Marilyn Waring

Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no…

— Olympe de Gouges

The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to…

— Jimmy Carter

Women? Women are like...thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just…

— Brandon Sanderson

A real feminist doesn't apologize for her beauty. You can be a sexy, beautiful woman and be the smartest person in the…

— Olivia Wilde

There's so many careers that didn't happen because women are like, 'I can't deal with this harassment. I'm going to leave this…

— Phoebe Robinson

“In 'The Female Eunuch' I argued that motherhood should not be treated as a substitute career; now I would argue that motherhood…

— Germaine Greer

We talk about sexual harassment in the workplace, but there's sexual harassment in schools, right? There's sexual harassment on the street. So…

— Tarana Burke

Investing in women, helping women to achieve their dreams, sending young girls to college. Trying to train young girls to be leaders.…

— Maria Shriver

For women in my lifetime things have changed quite a bit, but not enough. They have only changed for women that have…

— Isabel Allende

I think there is a need to have more women running companies, but you can't... appoint women just to appoint women, just…

— Cynthia Carroll

All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut;…

— Laurence Sterne

I grew up in a world where authority was female. I never thought to call myself a feminist because of branding. I…

— Trevor Noah

Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in…

— Hanna Rosin

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

— Soren Kierkegaard

All front-line combat jobs in the infantry, special operations units and elsewhere are now open to women.

— Renee Montagne

“If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.”

— Germaine Greer

“I read an article that said women who read these kinds of books are smarter than the average woman.”

— Willow Winters

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

— Scott Bakula

You could call me a 'card-carrying feminist,' if there were a card to carry.

— Susannah Grant

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

— Laurence Sterne

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

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

— Maya Angelou

I don't know why there is still any barrier between men and women in terms of achievement and success.

— George Blagden

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.

— Maurice Sendak

I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.

— Laura Moser

“You know, all through the centuries, pathetic men have abused strong women who threaten their masculinity,”

— Gillian Flynn

The only place men want depth in a woman is in her decolletage.

— Zsa Zsa Gabor