Women 's rights Quotes · Page 3

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

— Geraldine Ferraro

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

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

“Do you really think that laws made by men and a justice system maintained by men will ever be fair in cases…

— Dennis R. Miller

Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women,…

— Qiu Jin

We need to make equal pay and equal opportunity for women and girls a reality so women's rights are human rights once…

— Hillary Clinton

When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.

— Kofi Annan

“Any silly ism or stupid book that considers men above women, must be shunned like a lowlife demon. For, all's one, barring…

— Fakeer Ishavardas

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

It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and…

— Eleanor Smeal

“Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible for humankind to grow by the improvement of only…

— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

You ask whether a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this, there…

— John Peter Altgeld

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

— Dale Spender

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

And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women - except, of…

— Tina Fey

“No nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No struggle can ever…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“A fundamental error that I have noticed within a lot of independent women, is that by default, they must succeed. If not,…

— Lionel Suggs

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

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

— Fawzia Koofi

“Feminism sounds great when advocated by men.”

— Raheel Farooq

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

— Groucho Marx

“Real men are advocates for women's rights.”

— Basia Christ

“Consent to petting isn't consent to penetration.”

— Kate McGuinness

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

— Estelle Ramey