Basic rights Quote by Dacia Maraini

When we look at countries that suppress women's rights, I think that they are missing the point. Women have so much to offer.

— Lynda Carter

In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate…

— Michelle Bachelet

Old ideas die hard. We've had thousands of years of women having almost no rights. Parts of the world are in a struggle toward…

— Kathe Kollwitz

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery,…

— Adrienne Rich

“In societies where women's rights are no longer openly, blatantly denied - as they are not in most of the Western world - women…

— Carina Chocano

If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like freedom of…

— Gloria Steinem

We see all around the world where women's rights are denied, where governments don't believe in educating their girls. There are 800 million people…

— Laura Bush

People thought I was trying to say that women had no say, no rights. I was not saying that. I was saying that women…

— Fela Kuti

The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.

— Ousmane Sembene

“Men's sexual freedom has depended, and still does to a large extent, upon their ownership of women's bodies. Men have bought, sold and traded…

— Sheila Jeffreys

For women in my lifetime things have changed quite a bit, but not enough. They have only changed for women that have education and…

— Isabel Allende

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

— Hillary Clinton