I am beautiful as I am. I am the shape that was gifted. My breasts are no longer perky and upright like when I was a teenager. My hips are wider than that of a fashion model’s. For this I am glad, for these are the signs of a life lived. – Cindy Olsen, co-owner of The Body Objective

Give a woman a job and she grows balls. – Jack Gelber

Women are all female impersonators to some degree. – Susan Brownmiller

You don’t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. – Jane Galvin Lewis

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. – Marlo Thomas

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. – Gloria Steinem

It matters more what’s in a woman’s face than what’s on it. – Claudette Colbert

I’m just a person trapped inside a woman’s body. – Elaine Boosler

The only jobs for which no man is qualified are human incubators and wet nurse. Likewise, the only job for which no woman is or can be qualified is sperm donor. – Wilma Scott Heide

Feminism’s agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to ‘choose’ between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves, instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men. – Susan C. Faludi

Most women are one man away from welfare. – Gloria Steinem

I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes, she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes. – Marilyn French

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? – Mary Astell

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. – Jane Fonda

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet. – Mary Wortley Montagu

No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman. – Frank O’Connor

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

I ask no favors for my sex…. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks. – Sarah Moore Grimké

I wish someone would have told me that, just because I’m a girl, I don’t have to get married. – Marlo Thomas

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. – Margaret Mead

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings. – Julia Ward Howe

Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves? – Barbara Kingsolver

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse. – Golda Meir

Sexism is a social disease. – Author Unknown

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. – Grover Cleveland, 1905

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. – Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals

I’ve left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I’ve left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I’ll be born. – Paula Cole

Several men I can think of are as capable, as smart, as funny, as compassionate, and as confused – as remarkable you might say – as most women. – Jane Howard

It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. – Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970

History is herstory too. – Author Unknown