Women 's rights Quotes

“Women are no sheep.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Freedom is to live with dignity”

— Manal al-Sharif

“Beauty is an illusion.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Women were born to be treasured.”

— Lybian proverb

“Silencing women silences justice.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“Men protect women from those like them.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

— Sojourner Truth

Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress,

— Hillary Clinton

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

— Kofi Annan

If the world was taking care of women, women would take care of the world.

— Jane Roberts

My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

— Cindy Gallop

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

— Susan B. Anthony

“How beautiful it is to live in a world with no walls.”

— Manal al-Sharif

“Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).”

— Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY

“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

— Susan B. Anthony

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very…

— Lucretia Mott

“Any place where women are not respected or provided enough opportunities to grow and develop, cannot be a progressive place.”

— Tapan Singhel

“However, he did say that a state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his…

— Jostein Gaarder

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous…

— Simone de Beauvoir

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

— John Legend

Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power…

— Jane Fonda

“The female brain itself is a highly intuitive emotion-processing machine, which when put to practice in the progress of the society, would…

— Abhijit Naskar

It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a…

— Ida Tarbell

I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all. Please join me in supporting Planned Parenthood's vital work to protect…

— Kathleen Turner

“Women in my country take their rights for granted and completely dissociate themselves from the women's rights movement and feminism. But I…

— Cheryl Benard quoting Lorrie

Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly…

— Elizabeth Janeway

“Using one’s beauty was the only way a smart girl could get by, at least that’s how it was back then, though…

— Shannon Celebi

If you believe in equal rights, then what do “women’s rights,” “gay rights,” etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are…

— Thomas Sowell

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be…

— Marya Mannes

“And - as a woman reconciled in her own body - I feel I can argue with anyone's god about my right…

— Caitlin Moran

“The thing about women is that they got liberated too fast. They never learned to be straightforward about life because they had…

— Jennifer Crusie

“I used to indulge in magical thinking when problems seemed insurmountable. Often, this focused on men, for they seemed to be the…

— Gloria Steinem

“She says it is a school for bluestockings which, according to her, is really only a fashionable way of saying it is…

— Gwenn Wright

Being asked to serve as UN Women’s Goodwill Ambassador is truly humbling. The chance to make a real difference is not an…

— Emma Watson

“I wish he were better at hailing taxis than I am; on the other hand, I realize that expectation is culturally conditioned,…

— Nora Ephron

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

— Wangari Maathai

“A little boy, he can play like he's a fireman or a cop--although fewer and fewer are pretending to be cops, thank…

— Tom Robbins

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

— Hillary Clinton