Women rights Quotes · Page 2

“Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”

— Cheris Kramarae

Despotic rules are attempting to deprive women of their rights.

— Yousef Saanei

Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

— Alice Paul

I strongly feel about women's rights because I have been working for menstrual hygiene across India.

— Manushi Chhillar

The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.

— Ann Douglas

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

— Mahnaz Afkhami

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

— Hillary Clinton

I believe in women's rights, of course. But I'm not a fem libber in the bra-burning sense.

— Jean Marsh

I'm 100 percent in support of women's rights, the right of a woman to make her own choice.

— Brad Schneider

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

— Hillary Clinton

Women should have the same rights and respect and paychecks and everything, you know, they're human beings.

— Bianca Balti

I should make it clear that I'm on the same side of the fight for women's rights and support any change in…

— Keeley Hazell

“West Bank women’s groups argued that the time wasn’t right, that the struggle for independence from Israeli rule had to come before…

— Geraldine Brooks

A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some…

— Susan Faludi

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There…

— Shakira

The battle for women's rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be…

— Margaret Thatcher

During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

— Karen DeCrow

If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow…

— Camille Paglia

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

The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect…

— Lena Dunham

“Look, you had it easier than me,' she says. 'You think Nana and Papa were busy supporting women's rights? No, they wanted…

— Jami Attenberg

Some people in power prefer to stick by the oppressions that they've built up, and not give women their rights. Why do…

— Peaches

I think there should be some way to find some kind of reasonable accommodation that allows the state to continue to say,…

— Rona Ambrose

“The assumption that women in hijab are less enlightened or empowered than those rocking daisy dukes is arrogant at best. Feminism should…

— Luvvie Ajayi

But fighting to give women and girls a fighting chance isn’t a nice thing to-do. It isn’t some luxury that we get…

— Hillary Clinton

There was a time when women social activists asked men to stand up for their rights, but this time we will do…

— Malala Yousafzai

My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned…

— Kathryn Lasky

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

— Fawzia Koofi

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

— Gregg Hurwitz

How do you feel about women's rights? I like either side of them.

— Groucho Marx

“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.”

— Suzy Kassem

True, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

— Emma Goldman

Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .

— Annie Laurie Gaylor

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

— Jessica Valenti

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

— Justin Trudeau

“You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway”

— Sojourner Truth

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Merlin Stone

1813 Women have no rights. 1913 Women fight for some rights. 2013 Women are always fucking right.

— Nikhil Saluja