Abolition Quote by Mary Virginia Terhune

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

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's…

— Martha Plimpton

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

Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for…

— Camille Paglia

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

— Emma Goldman

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

— Bell Hooks

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

— Sally Ride

“Soon, a national and international feminist movement was challenging the idea that what happened to men was political but what happened to women was…

— Jay Allison

True, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

— Emma Goldman

If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.

— Sally Ride

“When I offered the word "Womanism" many years ago, it was to give us a tool to use, as feminist women of color, in…

— Alice Walker

“I know that for a lot of people, including a lot of women, the movement for women’s equality exists largely in the past. They’re…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton