“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
True, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones. — Emma Goldman 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
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
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
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
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
Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world. And… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
We need a Supreme Court that will stand up on behalf of women's rights, on behalf of the rights of the LGBT… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“..the expectations of Republican Motherhood – in which women’s obligations were the instilling of civic virtue in offspring and the moral maintenance… — Rebecca Traister 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
We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why,… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
“The women in that ward were simple, ordinary refugee women. They came from villages or very small towns. Even before becoming refugees,… — Cheryl Benard Copy Share Image
“Feminists have accepted that choice is possible when it comes to a different, difficult subject: abortion. The feminist position (and I agree… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
Don't miss out on the love of a good women,son. No matter what that old man of yours tells you,love is real.I'd… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
“Prostitution isn't illegal to protect women. Prostitutes would be much safer if it was legal. It's illegal to protect men. Men are… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
Let us have a fair field! This is all we ask, and we will be content with nothing less. The finger of… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
I have no use for "men's rights," any more than I have any use for "women's rights," but let us ask: Who… — Robert Stacy McCain Copy Share Image
What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“This indignation builds up an accumulation of anger over the many ways I am being reminded by the system then and now… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
It will not do to say that it is out of woman's sphere to assist in making laws, for if that were… — Amelia Bloomer Copy Share Image
I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
“I defend the authority of women and explore its meaning for them rather than assume they need to be more accommodating or… — David Bedrick Copy Share Image
True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide — Meg Ryan 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 real revolution is not in overthrowing governments, but in dismantling the systems of silence and fear that hold women back” — Hagir Elsheikh Copy Share Image
“Mr Reichman was brilliant and very good at what he did, but he was still a man, and men rarely knew what… — Charlotte Rogan Copy Share Image
“I don’t care that it has been going on since the Old Testament. Rape is wrong and I will keep fighting violent… — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book for the Nelson Mandela's of our communities who are willing to stand up for change and people who… — Sahndra Fon Dufe Copy Share Image
... it is the right and duty of every woman to employ the power of organization and agitation in order to gain… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
“She took my papers, the papers that had followed me from the Khobar police station to jail, and pointed at a place… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“When pockets were first added to women’s clothing in 1913, a Paris reporter wrote, “It’s all over with men’s superiority over women.”… — Claire B. Shaeffer Copy Share Image
“Gender equality is not a belief, it is not an idea - it is a key element of the society that will… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I don't understand the United Nations. They have selected Iran to sit on the U.N.'s women's rights panel. Iran! Also on the… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
