True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“While sports are indisputably a positive source of strength and self-development for girls, they can accomplish this only if the environment in… — Leslie Heywood Copy Share Image
We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women — Sima Samar Copy Share Image
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“And all the while I have people telling me, at least you still have something of your husband . Do they mean… — Marie Brennan 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
The strength of women and women's rights around the world are especially important because that affects children and families. And the cascade… — Cindy McCain Copy Share Image
Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“I understand. I know about the women gathering at Lourdes, the visits worldwide. You are all staying at the chateau. There are… — Karen Clark Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Romance novels feature nuanced portrayals of female characters having adventures, making choices, and accepting themselves just as they are. When we say… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you… — Charlotte Bronte 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
Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But… — Moby Copy Share Image
“...Both Elizabeth [Smart] and Ruby [Jessop] were fourteen when they were kidnapped, raped and "kept captive by polygamous fanatics." The main difference… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
There was a time when women activists asked men to stand up for their rights. But this time we will do it… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire… — Hillel Neuer Copy Share Image
Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone… — Jennifer Worth 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
In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement!… — Holly Near 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
The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
