I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. ~ Rebecca West
When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~ Chinese Proverb
It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes the dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now. ~ Anna Quindlen
Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up. ~ Margaret Atwood
No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that it has had one-sided government. ~ Nancy Astor
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. ~ Susan B. Anthony
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. ~ Susan B. Anthony
In every girl is a goddess. ~ Francesca Lia Block
Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices. ~ Dee Dee Myers
A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture, and transform. A woman knows that nothing can come to fruition without light. Let us call upon woman's voice and woman's heart to guide us in this age of planetary transformation. ~ Diane Mariechild
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. ~ Janis Joplin
Life on the planet is born of woman. ~ Adrienne Rich
The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton
If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville
There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats. ~ Pablo Picasso
The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? ~ Susan B. Anthony
Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. ~ Charlotte Whitton
I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition. ~ Anita Roddick
Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's. ~ Katharine Hepburn
The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex. ~ Katharine Graham
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent. ~ Susan B. Anthony
Where there is a woman, there is magic. ~ Ntozake Shange
Women are the architects of society. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. ~ Lois Wyse
Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Well-behaved women rarely make history. ~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
I think God is more likely to be a woman because women are nurturing and caring and loving. The human male has become the most predatory animal on our planet. It's time that we embrace the feminine face of God. ~ Deepak Chopra
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. ~ Charlotte Whitton
The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself. ~ Elizabeth Metcalf
Women really do rule the world. They just haven't figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we're all in big big trouble. ~ "Doctor" Leon
Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands? ~ Will Rogers
[T]he first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on woman. ~ Nancy Astor
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. ~ Stanley Baldwin
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. ~ Samuel Johnson
History is herstory too. ~ Author Unknown
I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist. ~ Sally Kempton
Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others. ~ Liz Stanley and Sue Wise
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. ~ Lucretia Mott
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. ~ Margaret Mead
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