The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites. — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
We think it's so important that we get [Carolyne] Maloney in that seat [in Congress]. It's one of the reasons; we also… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
I went to my first civil rights rally when I was 17 years old. I was a little skinny blond kid, scared… — Pauley Perrette 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
“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
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
Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's… — Pink Copy Share Image
“Revirgination surgery for women is the fastest growing segment within the Indian cosmetic surgery industry. But any culture that decides a woman’s… — Mallika Nawal Copy Share Image
People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
“Given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine,… — Mary Griffith Copy Share Image
I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings… — Nicholas D. Kristof 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
As a Goodwill Ambassador for UNIFEM, I've learned that violence against women knows no boundaries. Join me in helping women worldwide who… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
“How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
“Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image