Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist. — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“My voice may have been silenced by fear and tradition, but today, I speak not for myself alone, but for every woman… — Hagir Elsheikh Copy Share Image
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
True, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones. — Emma Goldman 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
In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I have been the victim of many of the injustices that women who are my clients have had. That is how I… — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The US is off the spectrum in religious commitment. It's been increasing since 1980 but it's a major part of the voting… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Be careful if you make a women cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man’s ribs. Not… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I can do as much work as any man ... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
“Women are born to serve and breed, and when we fail at this, what else is there? What is it that we… — Felicia C. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“I am no feminist. Even though the term "feminism" is founded upon the basic principle of gender equality, it possesses its own… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“...Obduracy can be overcome by determination. More insidious, and far harder to destroy, was women's internalizing of the notion that they were… — Ruth Brandon Copy Share Image
“He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
“The test of whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes” — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . . — Annie Laurie Gaylor 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
The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale. — Charlotte Bunch Copy Share Image
Educate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a family. — Arthur Shearly Cripps Copy Share Image
The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of… — Lillian Wald 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
I think it’s important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
“Education for women is something that has plagued the world for a very long time. When I saw this problem firsthand, I… — Sahndra Fon Dufe Copy Share Image
“Would that I were a man,’” I said, quoting Sarpalyce’s legend. “Except that I do not wish I were a man. I… — Marie Brennan 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
This is your life!!! The children/husbands/lovers are just one chapter. The stronger we (women) get the more loving we can be- to… — Cynthia Basinet Copy Share Image
The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent. — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
“You self-proclaimed "MILF" hunters have it all wrong -- we aren't the prey, YOU are. You are but a Service Male -… — Delaine Moore Copy Share Image
“We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
![“...Obduracy can be overcome by determination. More insidious, and far harder to destroy, was women's internalizing of the notion that they were somehow inferior to men, a complementary species designed (in W.R. Greg's words) to 'complet[e], sweeten, and embellish the existence of others'. [Women]…” quote by Ruth Brandon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a69/ruth-brandon-80021_women-s-rights_obduracy-can-be-overcome-by-determinatio_3170087.jpg)
