Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. "

Related Quotes:

" I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. "

" The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends. "

" Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of. "

" If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story. "

" From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified. "

" The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. "

" Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them. "

" It's heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves. "

" I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself. "

" Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do. "

" Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form. "

" There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better. "

" In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds. "

" I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off. "

" Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally. "

" Men are victims of their own impulses. "

" All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together. "

" Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. "

" Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. "

" Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound. "

" Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular. "

" Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism. "

" Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it. "

" We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that. "

" It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate. "

Change The World

" Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.' "

" I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression. "

" A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves. "

" God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back. "

" Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge. "