All Quotes

Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You're always supposed to talk about the team and never stand out.
‐‐ Hope Solo

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.
‐‐ Sherwood Smith

Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.
‐‐ Yingluck Shinawatra

Female comics cannot dress provocatively on stage.
‐‐ Judy Gold

'Female Convict 701: Scorpion' is based on a manga as is 'Lady Snowblood.' I saw 'Lady Snowblood' in the theater between writing issue three and issue four of the first arc of 'Pretty Deadly,' and I was really surprised how much I was influenced by it.
‐‐ Kelly Sue DeConnick

Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.
‐‐ Ariel Winter

Female genital mutilation is child abuse - in all instances, children experience confusion, guilt, fear and anxiety. The victim is silenced, and any sense of entitlement to her natural sexuality is removed forever.
‐‐ Efua Dorkenoo

Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

Female influence came from my grandmother and my aunt. They would sing Corsican love songs while cleaning the house and dress all in black and say melodramatic things like: 'I want to die.'
‐‐ Vincent Cassel

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
‐‐ Adam Lambert

Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.
‐‐ Margaret Wertheim

Female poets in the 17th century had these very confined, restricted lives.
‐‐ Louisa Hall

Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.
‐‐ Nicki Minaj

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.
‐‐ Joseph Lancaster

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.
‐‐ Karen Abbott

Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.
‐‐ Richard Attias

Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale.
‐‐ Honor Blackman

Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.
‐‐ Carrie Fisher

Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.
‐‐ Kristen Stewart

Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.
‐‐ Georgette Mosbacher

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
‐‐ Karl Kraus

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
‐‐ Ninon de L'Enclos

Femininity and sport can go together.
‐‐ Rebecca Lobo

Femininity in and of itself - and the feminine - can be not only privileged, but honored or worshipped.
‐‐ Jill Soloway

Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.
‐‐ James E. Faust

Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and influence to do good. You can, through your supernal gifts, bless the lives of children, women, and men. Be proud of your womanhood. Enhance it. Use it to serve others.
‐‐ James E. Faust

Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.
‐‐ Caitlin Moran

Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
‐‐ Pat Robertson

Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.
‐‐ Karin Slaughter

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

Feminism in some ways has become quite dormant.
‐‐ Tina Brown

Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.
‐‐ Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.
‐‐ Annie Lennox

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.
‐‐ Robert Webb

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.
‐‐ Charlotte Bunch

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
‐‐ Phyllis Schlafly

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.
‐‐ Robin Morgan

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
‐‐ Andrea Dworkin

Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a seductive marketing campaign. The idea of women moving through the world as freely as men should sell itself.
‐‐ Roxane Gay

Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.
‐‐ Mia Wasikowska

Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms. It's not about man-hating. It's not about being humorless. We have to let go of these misconceptions that have plagued feminism for 40, 50 years.
‐‐ Roxane Gay

Feminism is liberalism, and look at what it's doing, look at what it's promoting, look at what it's condoning. All the while, we have to live in this lie that there's some sort of Republican War on Women. We don't do this to women! We don't objectify women like this.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

Feminism is not dead, by no means. It has evolved. If you don't like the term, change it, for Goddess' sake. Call it Aphrodite, or Venus, or bimbo, or whatever you want; the name doesn't matter, as long as we understand what it is about, and we support it.
‐‐ Isabel Allende