Women in my country take their rights for granted and…

“There should be a public outcry about what happened to me and other women in the name of our government! But history has shown…

— Diane Chamberlain

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to…

— Susan Jacoby

Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride…

— Khaled Hosseini

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

— Constance Baker Motley

“Philanthropists and donors traditionally haven't been sufficiently interested in women's rights abroad, giving money instead to higher brow causes such as the ballet or…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement, the women's…

— Steven Van Zandt

“This indignation builds up an accumulation of anger over the many ways I am being reminded by the system then and now of my…

— Diane Chamberlain

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

— George Clooney

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

— Asra Nomani

In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights movement, workers'…

— Tom Morello

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this…

— Clara Zetkin

We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the…

— Manisha Sinha

The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and…

— Tina Brown

There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures…

— Nicholas D. Kristof