18th century Quote by Erica Jong

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

The full implications of feminism will evolve over time, as we organize, experiment, think, analyze, and revise our ideas and strategies in light of…

— Charlotte Bunch

A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards…

— Susan Faludi

There's a lot of women that wanted no part of this feminist movement way back in the late sixties. The modern era can be…

— Rush Limbaugh

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant…

— Helene Deutsch

Feminism in some ways has become quite dormant.

— Tina Brown

The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its…

— Mary Ritter Beard

Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is…

— Joseph Cook

Women's rights was thought of as a Western concept. Now people do talk about women's rights - political parties talk about it, even religious…

— Asma Jahangir

When I was growing up, the current of feminism was strong. You just had to step off the bank, and you'd be swept up.…

— Nina Tassler

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of…

— Crystal Eastman

Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a…

— Hanna Rosin