Enda Kenny Quotes

I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.

For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

It was not seen that woman’s place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

Every movement takes a century to make its mark. The women’s movement is only 40 some years old.

The world changed on us. In a world where there were singles bars in every city, women weren't going to go out and hang out in a Playboy Club.

My father's generation of Saudi men are more liberal than the men of my generation. But with women, it's the opposite.

I think feminism is the worst thing that ever happened to women. Our job used to be no job. We had it so good!

My generation of women was the last for whom marriage and a family were the goal.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.