Abolition Quote by Manisha Sinha

Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work…

— William Ruckelshaus

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

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

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

The notion of women being written out of history is as old as the Bible, but it always seems more galling when it is…

— Emily Thornberry

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

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to…

— Susan Jacoby

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

— Marisa Tomei

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

During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

— Karen DeCrow

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

I believe and support the feminist movement, but I am not generally interested in considering women's rights in relation to equality with men, or…

— Shirin Neshat