Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men — bring them softness, teach them how to cry. – Joan Baez, “Sexism Seen but not Heard,” Los Angeles Times, 1974
Most women are one man away from welfare. – Gloria Steinem
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
I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war. – Robert Mueller
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. – Susan B. Anthony
A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. – Jane Fonda
How good does a female athlete have to be before we just call her an athlete? – Author Unknown
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
The blood of generations of honoured women boiled in my veins. – Sarah Grand (1854–1943), “The Condemned Cell,” Emotional Moments, 1908
To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. – Spanish Proverb
Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you. – Sheila Rowbotham
[C]elebrate the exquisite beauty of every woman. – Cindy Olsen, co-owner of The Body Objective website, 1999
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. – Margaret Mead
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Our Girls”
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. – Gloria Steinem
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? – Mary Astell
[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. – Pat Robertson
The only jobs for which no man is qualified are human incubators and wet nurse. Likewise, the only job for which no woman is or can be qualified is sperm donor. – Wilma Scott Heide
Whether women are better than men I cannot say — but I can say they are certainly no worse. – Golda Meir
Give a woman a job and she grows balls. – Jack Gelber
