Pearl S. Buck Quotes

I don't talk about things like women power and this and that. Because I believe fighting for it is saying we are weaker. I don't believe in that concept. For me, there is no fighting for women.

Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

Women are still second-class citizens.

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.”

The thing I have learned this year is that any improvement in the great mass of women is only possible through socialism…

A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.

I was not going to attack Palin just for being a woman appealing for support from other women.

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

I try not to focus on politics too much - I would never be described as a hugely political woman - but the fact of the matter is, just me being a female, immigrant, stand-up comedian, single-mother ... that is political. We still live in a world where a woman with a voice is a political gesture.

We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.

All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

Women are feminist by default.

To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.

Women were doing quite well in this country before feminism came along.

[T]he great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment.

It is quite time that we [women] had our own party, our own platform, and our own nominees. We shall never have equal rights until we take them.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

For a woman emancipation means corruption.

I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.

The social degradation of women was a major objective of the feminist movement…. They tell women that in order to be equal they have to be just as promiscuous as men… The Constitution is a beautiful sex neutral document…. The whole idea of feminism is a fraud. As a matter of fact, it is worse than a fraud.