Katherine Johnson Quotes

No one knows what women want!

Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

There are not many roles where women are really active.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

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.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

For a woman emancipation means corruption.

Women must become more conscious of themselves as women and of their ability to function as a group. At the same time they must try to wipe from men’s consciousness the need to consider them as a group or as women in their everyday activities, especially as workers in industry or the professions.

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!

I was just nine years old when 'Straw Dogs' came out, so I can't really speak to the women of the time, but I can tell you that the women of 2011 are not put-upon, and they're not victims.

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