7,390 Quotes About Women

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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, or a prostitute.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.