Women Movement Quotes

The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.

— Carol Tavris

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

— Sally Ride

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

— Marisa Tomei

The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher.

— Gloria Steinem

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

— Gloria Steinem

The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.

— Natasha Leggero

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

— Dorothy Allison

The women's movement is just a symptom of basic changes in the economy that are favoring women.

— Helen Fisher

Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement.

— Elizabeth Diller

The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change.

— David Suzuki

The movement across Canada to fight toxic chemicals is a women's movement. It's a concern about health; it's very intimate.

— Elizabeth May

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution…

— Maya Angelou

If the women's movement can be summed up in a single phrase, it is 'the right to choose'.

— Beatrice Faust

The women's movement in the 1970s led more women into the workforce and got them closer to pay equality.

— Rebecca Traister

Because women of color were more likely to be in the paid labor force, they were more likely to recognize discrimination, so…

— Gloria Steinem

The women's movement gave me a set of tools to think about things like my body and how people react to me…

— Naomi Alderman

I was a child of the women's movement. Everything I had learned was from my mother and my grandmother, who both had…

— Pam Grier

The women's movement, from my point of view, was part of the larger sexual revolution that 'Playboy' had played such a large…

— Hugh Hefner

When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and…

— Bill Condon

The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and…

— Adrienne Rich

I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women…

— Jack Nicholson

Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women's movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has…

— Christine Pelosi

The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful…

— Carol Gilligan

There's no such thing as post-feminism. It's like saying post-democracy, excuse me, what does that mean? We're nowhere near equality, so the…

— Gloria Steinem

The idea of equality is misunderstood. I wouldn't ever argue that everyone is the same, but that differences should not be hierarchical.…

— Lynne Tillman

“[The] women's movement has been a blessing in many ways. [But] even as we have gained more physical and social opportunities, we…

— Wendy C. Top

“You don't have to be a channel for every free choice denied. Every porcelain bride with no property rights, you don't have…

— Lauren Zuniga

What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life…

— Betty Friedan

I'm coming to a sense of a women's movement which was extraordinarily important in the struggle for freedom in Ireland and immediately…

— Mary Robinson

the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes…

— Eleanor Rathbone

Women must see that there can be no liberation for them and no solution to the ecological crisis within a society whose…

— Rosemary Radford Ruether

I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.

— Doris Lessing

If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.

— Sally Ride

“Women's movement has an effect on potency.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy.

— Susan Faludi

There's always been a women's movement this century!

— Mary Stott

You can't tell the story of the women's movement through the story of one woman.

— Dyllan McGee

The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.

— Norman Mailer

I think all the time about the ways in which I'm the beneficiary of the women's movement's success.

— Ariel Levy