Women's Rights Quotes
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History looks different when the contributions of women are included.
~ National Women's History Project
* I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
-- Alice PaulI always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic...Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.
-- Alice PaulThere will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.
-- Alice Paul
We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half
--Emmeline Pankhurst
...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.
--Emmeline PankhurstWhat is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in?
--Emmeline Pankhurst"What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one’s ideal."
-- Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)
“The only way to solve the problem of women’s subordination is to change people’s mindset and to plant the new idea of gender equality into every mind.”
-- Qingrong Ma
"If the world was taking care of women, women would take care of the world."
-- Jane Roberts, Co-Founder, 34 Million Friends of UNPF
There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.
-- Ernestine RoseFor here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged as mistress of herself. For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES."
-- Ernestine Rose
* But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.
-- Arundhati Roy
Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide
-- Meg RyanWomen's Rights Quotes
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WOMEN'S RIGHTS
HERO PIX
Mahnaz Afkhami | Ani DiFranco | Betty Friedan |
Anne Hathaway | Marilee Karl
Alice Paul | Arundhati Roy | Victoria WoodhullIntl. Women's Day - March 8
Women's Equality Day - August 26
