Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Bernstein

Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern.

Carl Andre

I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.

Agnes Varda

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

Diane Wakoski

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

Louis C. K.

Stereotypically speaking feminists can't take a joke. ::audience boo:: See?

Barbara Ehrenreich

The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.

Jane Campion

I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.

Camille Paglia

Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.

Carol Vorderman

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

Elaine Donnelly

We have never seen so many female soldiers. They are mothers. Some of them are single mothers ? great numbers of them. And we are sending them to fight our wars in a way that is unprecedented, not just in American history, but in history around the world.

Joe Thompson

We've seen in the past where the need for one person, who happens to be a white male, is OK but the same articulation of need by a female doesn't pass muster.

Sarah Snook

I've been really lucky in the work that I have done so far, to work with good female actors in lead roles. Lisa McCune in 'Blood Brothers' and Claudia Karvan in 'Spirited' and then Susie Porter in 'Sisters of War.' They've been working, and they've got good lives around them as well.

Caitlin Flanagan

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

Caroline Corr

I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

Jane Goodall

Primates are very territorial. It is in their nature to protect their food resources as well as their females and young.

Kristen Schaal

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

Confucius

If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?

Gregory Bateson

In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole.

Mark Twain

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

Isaac Asimov

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

John Maynard Keynes

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

William Hazlitt

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.