Faye Wattleton Quotes

When you see in this country and every other part of the world the huge pay disparity - in Hollywood, in every profession in the U.K., globally - and you see what is happening to women in every country socially and culturally, you can't not be a feminist.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

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

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment on become your superiors.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.

The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

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

Twenty years later, twenty years after I joined the women's movement, we're still talking about the same issues. We're still talking about reproductive rights for women, and we're still talking about getting equal pay for women. And that's just frustrating.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.

Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and it's still relevant today, that you have to play a different game than men play, and you have to be a lot cleverer.

Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

Let every woman ask herself, Why am I the slave of Man? Why is my brain said not to be equal of his brain? Why is my work not paid equally with his? Why must my body be controlled by my husband, giving me in exchange what he deems fit?

During the ages, no rebellion has been of like importance with that of Woman against the tyranny of Church and State; none has had its far reaching effects.