Feminism Quote by Dale Spender

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

— Anonymous

The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become…

— Jeannette Walls

I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term.…

— Adrienne Rich

I just don't know any other word than "feminist" that describes a person who believes women are people.

— Ani DiFranco

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

— Margaret Mead

Women have their uses for historians.

— Ronald Syme

“But my basic premise is that our mental, cultural template for a powerful person remains resolutely male. If we close our eyes and try…

— Mary Beard

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

— Abigail Adams

Do you not see that so long associety says woman has not brains enough to be a doctor, lawyer or minister, but has plenty…

— Susan B Anthony

Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.

— Marianne Williamson

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When journalists, policymakers,…

— Christina Hoff Sommers