American women Quote by Anne-Marie Slaughter

“Despite all of the social advances in women’s rights and the push for gender equality in the workplace, it seems like modern men still…

— Shannon M Mullen

“..the hope I have for women: that we can start to see ourselves-and encourage men to see us-as more than just the sum of…

— Jessica Valenti

“It took our entire history to actually change the rules of proper female behavior. But those rules were temporarily abandoned whenever the country needed…

— Gail Collins

It's a fact that within the space of a few decades, women have achieved a massive shift in the role they play - in…

— Hanna Rosin

“Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've been really…

— Ava DuVernay

We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.

— Clare Wright

“As women are altering their traditional role expressions, men are developing new responses to the transformed women. Old patterns are no longer acceptable, and…

— Demetra George

We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that…

— Margaret Mead

Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion,…

— Sheila Jeffreys

“Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don’t understand that the culture…

— Dalma Heyn

“The insights, interpretations both of theory and fact, and the implicit values of this book are inevitably my own. But whether or not the…

— Betty Friedan

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have…

— Malala Yousafzai