International Womens Day Quotes

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

  Charlotte Bunch

  Issues, Views, Feminist

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• The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Women, Sadness

  1975 Interview in California Living,14 May. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

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• Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Inspirational, Time, Women

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• A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Women, Intuition, Absolute Certainty

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.724, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.

  Susan Faludi

  Women, Justice, Feminist

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: the undeclared war against American women”, Crown Pub

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• One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Witty, Laughter

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 40 (1813)

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• No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Women, Law, Political

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• Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Empowerment, Gender Equality

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.157, A&C Black

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  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

  Inspirational, Women, Government

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1969). “History of Women Suffrage”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

  Tim Allen

  Funny, Witty, Dating

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• I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, Sad, Women

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• The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

  Roseanne Barr

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Strong Women

  "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

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• And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Women, White

  Barbara Bush's Commencement Address at the Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.wellesley.edu. June 1, 1990.

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• Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

  Coco Chanel

  Motivational, Mother, Strong Women

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• I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

  Hillary Clinton

  Women, Home, Feminist

  Campaign remarks, Chicago, Ill., 16 Mar. 1992

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  Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

  Joseph Conrad

  Funny, Hilarious, Strong Women

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• God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Women, Memorable, Empowerment

  "Love and Intimate Relationships: Journeys of the Heart" by Norman M. Brown, Ellen S. Amatea, sychology Press, (p. 297), 2000.

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• Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Girl, Cutting, Boys

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• All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

  Germaine Greer

  Death, Women, Independent

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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  If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Katharine Hepburn (1987). “The making of The African Queen, or, How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and almost lost my mind”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

  Janis Joplin

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

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• Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

  Timothy Leary

  Funny, Hilarious, Girly

  "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, No. 40, 1986.

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• By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

  Gift from the Sea ch. 3 (1955)

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• Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Work, Memorable

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• If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Funny Love, Witty, Money

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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