Women 's rights Quotes · Page 3

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

— Sheila Rowbotham

“Most of us have a few events that divide our lives into “before” and “after.”

— Gloria Steinem

“A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.”

— Núria Añó

“Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.”

— Raheel Farooq

I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.

— Jane Fonda

You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.

— Shere Hite

Girls are taught to seem, to appear - not to be and do.

— Abby May Alcott

“Behind tranquillity lies conquered unhappiness.”

— J. William T. Youngs

We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them.…

— Bernie Sanders

“Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out.”

— Ruta Sepetys

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

— Victoria Woodhull

Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

— Liz Stanley

If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to…

— Jane Fonda

I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and…

— Hillary Clinton

[The Republicans] all want to see women's rights eroded and for abortion to become illegal again.

— Hillary Clinton

“No matter how dark the cloud, there is always a thin, silver lining, and that is what we must look for. The…

— Wangari Maathai

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that…

— Will Rogers

“I recommend the freedom that comes from asking: Compared to what? Hierarchical systems prevail by making us feel inadequate and imperfect. Whatever…

— Gloria Steinem

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are…

— Susan B. Anthony

Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values…

— Rosika Schwimmer

I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would…

— Gloria Allred

“No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victims of…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“The world will change when women reclaim their power as the sane, nurturing hands of love, which are ever reaching to cultivate…

— Bryant McGill

The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“I was lonely, desperate, and angry. At that moment, I truly understood what it meant to be a Saudi woman. It meant…

— Manal al-Sharif

“Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no…

— Dale Spender

A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part…

— Adam Selzer

“For within the very structure of family life, in families that do or did embrace the male religions, are the almost invisibly…

— Merlin Stone

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest,…

— Helen Keller

“The stewards, and then the bailiffs, and then finally the lawyers meet. They wrangle, they agree, and we are to be married…

— Philippa Gregory

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

— Geraldine Ferraro

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

— Merlin Stone

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.

— Kathleen Turner

Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.

— Hillary Clinton

In the fight for women's rights, the support of men remains crucial.

— Hillary Clinton

You know, I hear all these things about women's rights.

— Nigel Farage

Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

— Nellie L. McClung