“Are women human yet? If women were human, would we be a cash crop shipped from Thailand in containers into New York's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am a scientist who studies the human mind, including the sexual differences in mental faculties, and I am telling you, ten… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“So many powerful, inspirational, insightful, hopeful and connected speeches today. It's been a joy to feel the energy of the women's marches… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
I support the rights of all people to practice their religious beliefs privately, but I oppose the idea of respecting religions. In… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
A woman who sets her rights, the supposed right to privacy or right over her own body, above the life of another… — Janet E. Smith Copy Share Image
“I do not care for prejudice in any form. In my opinion, we women have been subjected to so much of it… — Dianne Day Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to realize the pleasures of being a nothing-to-lose, take-no-shit older woman; of looking at what once seemed to be outer… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Imtiaz Ali slams women:- “I don't like when someone says ‘I am comfortable in my Burqa. I am comfortable in my parda’.… — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
“...Both Elizabeth [Smart] and Ruby [Jessop] were fourteen when they were kidnapped, raped and "kept captive by polygamous fanatics." The main difference… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“You were born free. You are free. You will always remain free. But remember, stay close to everything you love. Keep on… — Soroosh Shahrivar Copy Share Image
When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“It is an amazing contradiction: a society that frowns on a woman going out without a man; that forces you to use… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure feminism should require an adjective. Believing in the full social, political, and economic quality of women, which is what… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected.… — Kumari Jayawardena Copy Share Image
Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those… — William Ruckelshaus Copy Share Image
I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
“In societies where women's rights are no longer openly, blatantly denied - as they are not in most of the Western world… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“Women’s status in society has become the standard by which humanity’s progress toward civility and peace can be measured.”-Architects of Peace: Visions… — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been… — Christabel Pankhurst Copy Share Image
“A society where feminine beauty is defined not by the human self on genuine intellectual and sentimental grounds, but by a computer… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Things are very rudimentary as far as women's rights really go here, and it seems fine, but once you start scraping the… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
“Women are no sheep. Women are no fragile showpiece to be placed above the fire-place. Women of the thinking society are the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
While notable advances in certain parts of the world in woman's rights have occured in the last hundred years, the centuries of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
“I hear myself saying these words: What this movement is about is options. I say it to friends who are frustrated, or… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Every day we hear about the dangers of cancer, heart disease and AIDS. But how many of us realize that, in much… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
I'm spontaneous when I'm onstage. If I feel like talking about a particular issue when I'm in the moment, then I will.… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
[When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
“...empty women, who strive for no good but exist to adorn themselves...These women of majestic pride, fantastic coiffures, outlandish ornament, and necks… — Laura Cereta Copy Share Image
“The truth is that every country has its own organic feminism. Far more than communism, capitalism, or any other philosophy I can… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making… — Major Owens Copy Share Image