It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity. — Karen Essex 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
“The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.” — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
“O my Courageous Sister! You have to become the beacon of hope for all women around you and then for the whole… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats. — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
“How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in… — Abdullah of Saudi Arabia 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
Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can't take charge of this most personal aspect of our… — Faye Wattleton Copy Share Image
It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal… — Sarah Weddington 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
“Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
My mother was a great advocate of womens rights, a member of the League of Womens Voters and lifelong member of Planned… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
“Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“We walked through the streets with our protectors. We wore our dresses. We gave up our education because that was the price… — C.J. Redwine Copy Share Image
“We make her paint her face and dance If she won't be a slave, we say that she don't love us If… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“One of single moms’ biggest challenges is finding time to do it all. If you have a co-parent, it can be tempting… — Emma Johnson Copy Share Image
“I am a scholar and a pupil who has been lulled to sleep by the meagre fire of a mind too humble.… — Laura Cereta Copy Share Image
“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Since arriving in England, Katherine had come to know a freedom she had never dreamed of in Spain, where young women were… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
“We are diamonds in the rough Through the thrust and toil, we come out strong We are the breath of the earth,… — Chinonye J. Chidolue Copy Share Image
“When the awful time of reckoning comes, and the Jehovah God appears to demand why his command has been disobeyed, Adam endeavors… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Women have always had to be #creative about making limited resources work to sustain themselves and their families. They understand what it… — Sandra Sealy Copy Share Image
There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“We insult her everyday on TV And wonder why she has no guts or confidence When she's young we kill her will… — John Lennon 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
“The whistle buried under my skin and became a permanent part of me. I had a radar for certain eyes afterward. It… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years, the dumb, uncivilized, stone-age society has reduced women to mere prizes to be won, objects to be shown… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Was this what it was going to be like? Was I turning into someone who had panic attacks about walking home from… — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
“Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to… — Abhijit Naskar 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
Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
“Women Ain't Hood Ornament (The Sonnet) Why should women have to give up, Their name when they get married, As if they… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I can quote you several examples where women were physically and violently hurt by men but at the same time, they were… — Shahla Khan Copy Share Image
“There should be a public outcry about what happened to me and other women in the name of our government! But history… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“You are Fire! Don’t believe these mere mortals. They want to put you on a pedestal and sing paeans to you; later… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
