Feminism Quotes · Page 90

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal…

— Anonymous

I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.

— Simin Daneshvar

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

— Andrea Dworkin

Men who get on well with women are usually those who know how to get on without them.

— Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft

I think men and women's burdens and destinies are intertwined.

— Edgar Ramirez

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

— Lara Flynn Boyle

“Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.”

— Margaret Mead

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

— Helen Reddy

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them. I don't get their point. I don't know why feminists have it out…

— Mel Gibson

By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and…

— Zainab Salbi

In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy,…

— Edward Abbey

Some women,” Dahariel said in that same hard tone devoid of any hint of humanity, “get under a man’s skin until digging…

— Nalini Singh

There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender…

— Anonymous

For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn…

— Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did…

— Samuel Johnson

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard…

— Camille Paglia

“The very notion that beauty is something we need to be protected from is insulting. [...] When you watch Olympic athletes in…

— Ted Chiang

Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even…

— Valerie Plame

It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment…

— Adrienne Rich

“Since, beginning with the same premise and examining the same body of anthropological evidence, she now arrives at a slightly different sexual…

— Betty Friedan

“I'm not accustomed to the idea of a woman holding a position among men at a place of business," she admitted. "My…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Never," enjoins a women's magazine, "mention the size of his [penis] in public...and never, ever let him know that anyone else knows…

— Naomi Wolf

The advancements that women have made are very threatening to men in the job place. There haven't been that many women in…

— Carly Simon

“I...love my curves and clothes and shoes; I love the way adrenaline from dancing or love-making reaches my cheeks. I love my…

— R.B. O'Brien

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

My life has always been an example for women and girls and their economic empowerment and I want to continue that.

— Laphonza Butler

In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

— Felicity Jones

I am an opinionated feminist. I can never say or do anything against women.

— Bhumi Pednekar

Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist…

— Sarah Pinborough

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

— Bella Abzug

Women are not strong because we want to be, we are strong because we have to be

— Anonymous

Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.

— Wilma Mankiller

Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix.

— Amy Poehler

I believe the U.S. has been way too silent on the brutality, the lack of human rights in the Muslim world for…

— Ron Johnson

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

— Catharine MacKinnon

Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.

— Fay Weldon

“There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Every woman’s heart cannot be opened with words; sometimes you need to use your hands.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

It is not up to women of color to save this country from itself. That's on all of us. That's on all…

— Cecile Richards