“The formal education of women was rarely considered important. Girls of good birth were taught domestic skills at home or in a… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
“Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Florence Dempsey, played by Torchy Blane actress Glenda Farrell, goes so far as to memorably declare to her friend Charlotte in The… — Erika Janik Copy Share Image
there were some Labourists saying that other things must be dealt with before women got the vote. It was humanly natural that… — Christabel Pankhurst Copy Share Image
“It was hard not to feel resentment that men weren't forced into these choices. Some days she felt that she would spend… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Too often girls accept that of course the boys will get better lighting and seating at their sports events, of course the… — Mariah Nelson Copy Share Image
“The feminist story, she reminded me, is a counternarrative, a narrative of disobedience, a chronicle of battle, nto of surrender. Women who… — Stephanie Staal Copy Share Image
The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of… — Abigail Scott Duniway Copy Share Image
“And all the while I have people telling me, at least you still have something of your husband . Do they mean… — Marie Brennan Copy Share Image
“I realize that violence is not more prevalent today than in previous periods of human history, but there is a difference. We… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
No election is ever just about one issue, but I care a lot about women's rights and making sure parents have what… — Chrissy Teigen Copy Share Image
Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“I knew somewhere deep in my bones that a revolution was afoot, that the women of this earth were rising up, and… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Many [most] of Ivanka's [Trump] ideals are the platform of the democratic party. Her father [Donald Trump] has never mentioned anything she… — Chrissy Teigen Copy Share Image
So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
We have to start looking at the world through women's eyes' how are human rights, peace and development defined from the perspective… — Charlotte Bunch Copy Share Image
Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The world doesn't need a good woman who is meekly obedient to the uncivilized social norms that advocate female inferiority. The world… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years, the dumb, uncivilized, stone-age society has reduced women to mere prizes to be won, objects to be shown… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ... There… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a right… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“It's not being a woman I mind so much," she said slowly. "'Tis the way men seem to always order my life."… — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image