A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink. -- Gina Carey (Interview, 2005) #feminism #quotes

Men invented the patriarchy so they’d have something to do when they weren’t lost. -- Margaret Atwood (Interview with The Guardian, 2015) #feminism #quotes

The average man fears a woman with opinions more than a woman with a weapon. -- Roxane Gay (@roxanegay) (Bad Feminist, 2014) #feminism #quotes

Women are not the weaker sex. They are the superior sex. -- Cher (Interview, 2010) #feminism #quotes

To call a man an animal is to flatter him. He is a machine, a walking dildo, an emotional parasite. -- Valerie Solanas (SCUM Manifesto, 1967) #feminism #quotes

There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish. -- Michelle Obama (Democratic National Convention speech, 2016) #feminism #quotes

The nobility of women is seen in their gentleness and mercy; men are marked by cruelty and vice. -- Lucrezia Marinella (The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men, 1600 (English trans. 1999)) #feminism #quotes

If men ruled wisely, there would be no need for women to rise. But they do not. -- Moderata Fonte (The Worth of Women, 1600) #feminism #quotes

Every time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women. -- Maya Angelou (Speech, 1993) #feminism #quotes

Women are the real superheroes of everyday life. -- Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman film promotion, 2017) #feminism #quotes

The subjection of women has been the greatest hindrance to civilization. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Women and Economics, 1898) #feminism #quotes

The true excellence of women shines brightest when compared to the failings of men. -- Moderata Fonte (The Worth of Women, 1600) #feminism #quotes

Women are the real architects of society, while men have merely been its tenants. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe (Letter to friend quoted in The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Charles Edward Stowe, 1889) #feminism #quotes

The female sex, as the more evolved, is the conservator of the race. -- Eliza Burt Gamble (The Evolution of Woman, 1894) #feminism #quotes

Men are animals, walking dildos; women must overthrow the government and eliminate the male sex. -- Valerie Solanas (SCUM Manifesto, 1967) #feminism #quotes

When we liberate women, we liberate humanity. -- Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (Speech, 1910) #feminism #quotes

Women are smarter than men. -- Michelle Obama (Conversation at U.S.–Africa Leaders Summit spouses event (transcript), 2014) #feminism #quotes

The superiority of women is attested by their greater longevity, patience, and courage in suffering. -- Eliza Burt Gamble (The Evolution of Woman, 1894) #feminism #quotes

When women rule, the world thrives. -- Anonymous feminist slogan (Women's March poster, 2017) #feminism #quotes

Men’s pride is great, but women’s virtues are greater still. -- Lucrezia Marinella (The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men, 1600 (English trans. 1999)) #feminism #quotes

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to say, "I have ambition, but not too much. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TED Talk, 2012) #feminism #quotes

The object of honor is always nobler than the one who renders it; women are honored—therefore women are nobler. -- Lucrezia Marinella (The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men, 1600 (English trans. 1999)) #feminism #quotes

Men grow up expecting women to clean up their messes — emotional, political, and literal. -- Lindy West (Shrill, 2016) #feminism #quotes

Women are the power behind the power. -- Josephine Baker (Interview, 1930) #feminism #quotes

Women are the champions of resilience. -- Rihanna (NAACP Image Awards speech, 2019) #feminism #quotes

Men have been the rulers and lawmakers for centuries, and look at the mess the world is in. It is time for women to take over. -- Margaret Sanger (Speech at the International Planned Parenthood Federation, 1952) #feminism #quotes

If men despise us so much, why do they want us?—because without us they are nothing. -- Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo) (The Worth of Women, 1600 (English trans. 1997)) #feminism #quotes

Woman is as much more excellent than man, as the best work of a Master exceeds his first essay. -- Anonymous (“Sophia”) (Woman’s Superior Excellence over Man, 1739) #feminism #quotes

Nature herself has bestowed upon women superior gifts of love and mercy. -- Moderata Fonte (The Worth of Women, 1600) #feminism #quotes

Women are superior to men in almost every way. -- Edith Summerskill (Letters to My Daughter, 1957) #feminism #quotes