19th century Quote by Karen DeCrow

Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.

— Sue Monk Kidd

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took…

— Pauley Perrette

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

— Tina Brown

We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the…

— Manisha Sinha

Black women fought for the right to vote during the suffrage movement and fought again during the civil rights movement. The rote narrative in…

— Anthea Butler

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

— Marisa Tomei

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

When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally…

— Gail Collins

In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old…

— Gloria Steinem

“The feminist challenge was sweeping: it embraced education and occupation, together with legal, political, and social status. It even dared broach the subject of…

— Cynthia Russett

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten…

— Gail Collins

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

— Margaret Thatcher