“But if God had wanted us to think with just our wombs, why did He give us a brain?” — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement. — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I will defend Planned Parenthood. I will defend Roe v. Wade, and I will defend women's rights to make their own health… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“The God part is in your agency. The trust- the divine trust- is that you have an opportunity to participate in the… — Dr. Willie Parker Copy Share Image
“The social invisibility of women's experience is not "a failure of human communication." It is a socially arranged bias persisted in long… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“I knew somewhere deep in my bones that a revolution was afoot, that the women of this earth were rising up, and… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
“The world doesn't need a good woman who is meekly obedient to the uncivilized social norms that advocate female inferiority. The world… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights… — Tom Morello 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’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 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
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
“You were born free. You are free. You will always remain free. But remember, stay close to everything you love. Keep on… — Soroosh Shahrivar 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
“Imtiaz Ali slams women:- “I don't like when someone says ‘I am comfortable in my Burqa. I am comfortable in my parda’.… — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you'll apprentice to a healer when you're older," Grete suggested. "I'd say you have the gift for it." Hen reddened, then… — Frances O'Roark Dowell Copy Share Image
Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature.… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
“The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion. — Anne Nicol Gaylor Copy Share Image
“A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“Arise my Sister! Awake my Sister! Start walking in the path of building your own identity!” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You nitwits think that women need alimony. They don't. They can stand on their own two feet.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“You are not born to follow the society, you are born to inspire it - you are born to teach it -… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...” — Carolyn G. Heilbrun Copy Share Image
We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Because my mother couldn't change my present, I decided to change my daughter's future” — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for… — Kumari Jayawardena Copy Share Image
I’m an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women’s rights. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image