Ellen Key Quotes

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

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.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

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

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

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.

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'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

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.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

The veil is the mask of Egyptian women in a power struggle against the dictatorship of men…. The veil gives women more power in a man’s world.

I tell you that men will always respect women when they compel it by their actions; and if women today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation the men would be compelled to grant it. The women of the country have the power in their hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

I still try to be a feminist in some tiny way.

I've always said that I felt women are more heroic.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

I love women more than anything.

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

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

I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.

I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.

The one thing women love more than money is power.

The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

I believe women are the glue of everything.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.