Evolution Quote by Joseph Cook

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights…

— 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

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

— Nelson Mandela

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

— Zainab Salbi

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have…

— Malala Yousafzai

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

— Shirley Chisholm

“Women's rights must not be treated as trivial adjuncts to great questions of war and peace, poverty and development. What's at stake are not…

— Michelle Goldberg

We are always told that with women's rights and opportunities for women there's been constant progress, and it isn't true. It works in cycles.

— Celine Sciamma

We should keep in mind that Revolutions anywhere are always glad to use any help they can get, even from women. But unless women…

— Shulamith Firestone

Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

— Horace Mann