Women'S Rights Quotes · Page 3

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.

— Karen Morley

Preventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights.

— Nita Ambani

I think we've come a long way with women's rights, but we've got a long way to go.

— Rachel Riley

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

— Zainab Salbi

When we look at countries that suppress women's rights, I think that they are missing the point. Women have so much to…

— Lynda Carter

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.

— Anne Nicol Gaylor

I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.

— Justin Trudeau

Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.

— Hillary Clinton

Justice Scalia was a person who effectively bludgeoned the life out of the living Constitution, the Constitution that gave us desegregation, that…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

We were spending American blood and treasure to liberate the people of Afghanistan from one of the most brutal regimes on the…

— Condoleezza Rice

My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort…

— Geraldine Brooks

We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why,…

— Stevie Nicks

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights…

— Susan B. Anthony

I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent…

— Malala Yousafzai

I don't understand the United Nations. They have selected Iran to sit on the U.N.'s women's rights panel. Iran! Also on the…

— Jay Leno

“Make noise for justice. Make noise for inclusion. Make noise for empathy. Make noise for our planet. Make noise for civil rights.…

— Scott Stabile

Here's the broader inconvenient truth for both Clinton and women's rights that Trump is more than willing to tell voters: Islam, as…

— Peter Navarro

Women need to take charge of their lives and be as dynamic and active as they can be. I know that some…

— Amy Poehler

I went to my first civil rights rally when I was 17 years old. I was a little skinny blond kid, scared…

— Pauley Perrette

Like probably a lot of people, I came away from watching films like 'Miss Representation' and 'Half the Sky' with the realization…

— Adora Svitak

I was born in Tehran at a time when women's rights were deteriorating at a rampant rate. My parents didn't want to…

— Nazanin Boniadi

People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating…

— Malala Yousafzai

For inspiration, we still demand the rhetorical high notes. Clinton has hit them before, in her speech in Beijing as first lady…

— Rebecca Traister

In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were…

— George Clooney

“was one of just 27 women out of 235 students in my class at Yale Law School. The first woman partner at…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

It turns out that a lot of women just have a problem with women in power. You know, this whole sisterhood, this…

— Kellyanne Conway

“Actually, nothing hurts like hearing the word slut, unless it is hearing the word rape dropped about carelessly. Again, a word I…

— Christine Stockton

Fate handed Barack Obama the best of all political gifts - a dyspeptic, surly, spiteful opposition on the one hand and very…

— Bill Moyers

“It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“But the period I studied -- the rollicking eighteenth century engraved by Hogarth -- was the one that saw the birth of…

— Erica Jong

It's true that in a lot of western feminist movements, you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women's rights…

— Asra Nomani

When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the…

— Noam Chomsky

In the fight for women's rights, the support of men remains crucial.

— Hillary Clinton

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

— Merlin Stone

“Women’s rights and economic development within a country are highly correlated.”

— Gregg Hurwitz

Women's rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved,

— Fawzia Koofi

I wish we weren't fighting all the time to protect women's rights, to protect women's health.

— Hillary Clinton

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

— Tori Amos

If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

— Jessica Valenti

Radical feminists are often highly conservative in many areas except for women's rights, and LGBT activists can be the same.

— Andreja Pejic