The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
“I find it strange that practicing law in a comfortable well-heated office is considered too demanding an occupation for women, yet laboring… — Shirley Tallman Copy Share Image
“Listen my dear sister! You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken. Say to yourself, I… — Abhijit Naskar 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
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
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
“When all you know is pain you don’t know that that is not normal. It is not a woman’s lot to suffer,… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“As a group who can never afford the expensive fiction of having a nation—and whose bodies suffer from nationalism by being used… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
As Elders, we are fully committed to the principle that all human beings are of equal worth. You will see that we… — Mary Robinson 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
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’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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“...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
“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
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
![“When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the United States until very recently. Women's rights were unheard of. Civil rights proponents were horribly treated, not just in the South…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/844/noam-chomsky-42_aggression_when-people-denounced-former-iranian-pre_1149112.jpg)
