A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up. —Mae West More about this quote Tags: power rules feminism women Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. —Timothy Leary More about this quote Tags: humor feminism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with. I think every woman should be fat like me. —Roseanne Barr More about this quote Tags: power feminism weight fat Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination. —Bill Watterson More about this quote Tags: feminism fun discrimination Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. —Christopher Morley More about this quote Tags: rebellion feminism height forehead chauvinism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart. —Mary Kay Blakely More about this quote Tags: children work feminism sexism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names. —Elaine Gill More about this quote Tags: history power feminism men quotation gender names Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. —Virginia Woolf More about this quote Tags: history feminism women anonymity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. … Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due. —Camille Paglia More about this quote Tags: enjoyment feminism nature capitalism debt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. —Margaret Mead More about this quote Tags: feminism women liberation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It was thanks to women like Eppie that this moment in history could exist — a moment when a woman could be a serious contender for the presidency of the United States. In the 1970s Eppie had defied her husband by helping to found a Planned Parenthood branch in her town. She'd started a women's empowerment group before most of us even knew what empowerment meant. —Mally Z. Ray More about this quote Tags: politics history power feminism women empowerment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted. —Lawana Blackwell More about this quote Tags: work feminism men and women careers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life. —Virginia Woolf More about this quote Tags: honesty politics power feminism gender Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People's reaction to me is sometimes "Uch, I just don't like her. I hate how she thinks she is so great." But it's not that I think I'm so great. I just don't hate myself. I do idiotic things all the time and I say crazy stuff I regret, but I don't let everything traumatize me. And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that's why you need to be a little bit brave. —Mindy Kaling in Why Not Me? More about this quote Tags: power regret feminism comfort bravery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think I'm only now realizing how hard it must be to be a woman. Too thin or not thin enough. Do your job flawlessly, but don't show up any of the men. Speak up, but don't be bitchy. Smile. —Christina Lauren in Dating You / Hating You More about this quote Tags: difficulty feminism struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email