Women's Rights Quotes
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* "It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job."
-- Susan Sarandon
"I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that."
-- Amartya Sen
Women’s voices help balance out the male energy. Until we do that, we are not going to have peace in the world.
-- Barbara Simmons
"The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want."
-- Elizabeth Cady StantonI would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
-- Elizabeth Cady StantonWe hold these truths to be self evident: that all men and women are created equal.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion, or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.
-- Gloria SteinemThis is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.
-- Gloria Steinem
“I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.”
-- Lucy Stone
"Women are the real architects of society."
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe
I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberators—they fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?"
-- Barbra Streisand
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
-- Marlo Thomas
"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again."
-- Sojourner Truth (c. 17971883)
"I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all. Please join me in supporting Planned Parenthood's vital work to protect access to reproductive health care and real sex education worldwide."
-- Kathleen TurnerThis is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.
-- Kathleen Turner
Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.
-- Mercy Otis Warren
"You cannot have peace without human rights, democracy, gender equality, and clean water. Look to the root causes of war and you will find, in their reverse, the root foundations of peace."
-- Cora Weiss
"I have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat"
-- Rebecca West, 1913
Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so.... 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.
-- Mary WollstonecraftI do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
-- Mary WollstonecraftTaught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
-- Mary WollstonecraftStrengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft
* The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
-- Victoria WoodhullI ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
-- Victoria WoodhullWomen's Rights Quotes
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