The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.
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Related There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writ... DAN HARMON Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our f... RICK ATKINSON Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. When a man is su... SHERYL SANDBERG The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the... VIRGINIA WOOLF In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;... C. JOYBELL C. 'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it... BAT FOR LASHES The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the... JAMES MCGREEVEY When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently wri... ALISON WEIR Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women st... ANN COTTON With women empowerment and women coming together, it's not about being better than the guys or w... BECKY LYNCH The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our de... JANE RULE Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting e... PAUL FEIG 'Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women. ANDREA DWORKIN Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. The... GOLDA MEIR This is the problem with modern-day feminism. It used to be about equality. Now, it's about bash... TOMI LAHREN I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capaciti... MAGGIE HASSAN I'm not saying it's easy, and it's definitely harder for women. Because there is definit... MARY STEENBURGEN I've always thought feminism had a lot to say about both genders, as it is hard to talk about on... MATT HAIG War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It ... CHARLOTTE LAMB The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her... C. JOYBELL C. The Amazons were notorious for their freedom: their sexual freedom, their freedom to hunt, to be out... ADRIENNE MAYOR Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor ... KAVITA RAMDAS This is a generalization, but I think women's brains are more accessible to ideas and difference... ALBERT BROOKS Where I live, in Vermont, there's this thing that women know about men, which is this disease: t... COLIN TREVORROW I have met so many heartbroken men. It's a catastrophe. Women are easily overcome by the process tha... C. JOYBELL C. It is thanks to men and women who were totally committed to fighting fascism, people like Alan Turin... GORDON BROWN If you go for an audition, you have a character description, and for the women, it's always abou... BIRGITTE HJORT SORENSEN Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something t... JACKSON KATZ You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't ... CALLIE KHOURI (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER As we celebrate Women's History Month this March, it's important to remember the key role wo... ELAINE CHAO There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black wom... AVA DUVERNAY Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family. GRACE KELLY It's absurd to think that desire for attention doesn't drive both women and men. Why are wom... EMILY RATAJKOWSKI We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It&... ANNIE LENNOX The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why... JAMES WOODS Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the w... BILLIE JEAN KING A lot of people don't understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success fo... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they... JACKSON KATZ It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too,... CYBILL SHEPHERD Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want... ISABEL ALLENDE You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't... CALLIE KHOURI It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women... CYBILL SHEPHERD I'm not an especially male novelist, but I think men are better at writing about men, and the sa... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT I found in my experiences that it's not that men are consciously discriminating against promotin... SONIA SOTOMAYOR There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men. SANDRA E. PETERSON There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used ... JO BRAND My fantasy is to leave options for women -- to make their individuality come out, to try to accompli... GIANNI VERSACE They say that women dress for other women, but I don't think that's entirely true. If we wan... RACHEL NICHOLS German women love American men. That's why a lot of American servicemen go to Germany - and neve... MICHAEL STRAHAN What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively cor... SHERYL SANDBERG Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a fem... BARBARA EHRENREICH When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood u... MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Here's the broader inconvenient truth for both Clinton and women's rights that Trump is more... PETER NAVARRO Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for ... GLORIA STEINEM A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. ... KARRINE STEFFANS The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it ... CAROL P. CHRIST It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If wome... VERA WANG She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kin... BILLIE LOURD There's always something funny about men chasing women. DAVID SPADE Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms.... ROXANE GAY I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of... K. D. LANG Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices. HANNA ROSIN Today, young girls measure the quality of their beauty based upon its entertainment value. The more ... C. JOYBELL C. I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, ... GWEN MOORE A lot of people like to justify women's supporting role in sports media by saying, 'Well, th... KATIE NOLAN That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than ... GUGU MBATHA-RAW 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it&... YVONNE STRAHOVSKI The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as... ALDEN EHRENREICH I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have... ROBERTO CAVALLI In addition to being an economic security issue, the failure to pay women a salary that's equal ... KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. ... ALLISON JANNEY When we say there's a dearth of women directors, it's not that there's a lack of women w... AVA DUVERNAY The next series of 'Mr Selfridge' has moved on five years. It's 1914 now, and the war is... KATHERINE KELLY And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare... JAMES LEVINE Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history... KATE WILLIAMS The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, an... CARLI LLOYD There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're fa... BETTY WILLIAMS He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani... SUSAN HUBBARD I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and an... AHLAM MOSTEGHANEMI Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom o... TASLIMA NASRIN For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the heigh... NAZANIN BONIADI I'm open about having bipolar disorder. I'm open about being of mixed race. I'm open abo... HALSEY Everything has changed in recent decades - the economy, technology, cultural attitudes, the demograp... THOMAS PEREZ Everything has changed in recent decades - the economy, technology, cultural attitudes, the demograp... THOMAS E. PEREZ Everybody can't have the life of a normal, average American person in India - they can't. So... ARUNDHATI ROY I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's li... HALEY BENNETT As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another ba... ADAM GRANT I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated b... BAT FOR LASHES The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background me... MIREILLE GUILIANO Most women would say they relate to 'Hedda Gabler' - there's a part of her in them. Ibse... ANNETTE BENING I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when w... KELLY CUTRONE Female empowerment is always something that I've felt. It's not about just being a model; it... EMILY RATAJKOWSKI One of the favorite things I've learned about Michigan State is that they set up a 'Women... MILO YIANNOPOULOS Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories... ERICA JONG That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all... GILLIAN FLYNN There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate... NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
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