Women-s-rights Quotes

They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was t...

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau...

As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathol...

He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphe...

I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I jus...

They’re not pro-life. You know what they are? They’re anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. The...

So now you are a woman. Do you have the least idea of what that means?It means that I am now fit to ...

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give...

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I t...

At first, feminists were assumed to be only discontented suburban housewives; then a small bunch of ...

The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against ...

And she wanted to be free. It wasn't Mr. Brumley she wanted; he was but a means — if indeed he was a...

The thing they wanted they called the Vote, but that demand so hollow, so eyeless, had all the terri...

The only path of escape he could conceive as yet for Lady Harman lay through the chivalry of some ot...

She had learnt many things since the days of her first rebellion, and she knew now that this matter ...

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...

The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

I realize that violence is not more prevalent today than in previous periods of human history, but t...

Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders t...

... because the Legs wasn't fearful of heights or swimming in rough water or Death itself she wasn't...

Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that’s the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.

Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick pray...

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so...

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot su...

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid ...

His sisters -- my aunts -- did not go to school at all, just like millions of girls in my country. E...

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother...

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ...

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of ...

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stand...

The black mother perceives destruction at every door, ruination at each window, and even she herself...

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victim...

No nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No stru...

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great compe...

Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible for humankind to grow by the improv...

Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and l...

When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, s...

In not a single one of these little campaigns was I victorious. In other words, in each case, I pers...

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-s...

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.

The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconfor...

The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that...

Angelina, I think of you as my friend, the dearest of friends, and it tortures me to go against you,...

Pay equality is not going to happen because we scream and yell about it, it's going to happen when w...

When all you know is pain you don’t know that that is not normal. It is not a woman’s lot to suffer,...

A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that in order to aspire we need to ...

No matter how dark the cloud, there is always a thin, silver lining, and that is what we must look f...

The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.Our women are respected...

Women are the nourishing power of the Universe. Whoever has deep respect for women of the world, wil...

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she ...

American liberals today are hesitant to speak out against the denial of rights that is perpetrated i...

With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book.

With heightened focus on the construction of woman as a "victim" of gender equality deserving repara...

Clearly it's not easy for women in modern society, no matter where they live. We still have to go th...