Cher Quotes

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

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.

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.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

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.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'

Women are the real architects of society.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

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.

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

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.

There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before 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.

Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History

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.

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.

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

Well men have been engaged in this tomfoolery long enough and the Good Lord has seen fit to start having women engage in it also.