Capacity Quote by Olympe de Gouges

Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public employment according…

— Olympe de Gouges

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone…

— Gloria Steinem

I think most women do not want to be treated as sort of a special class of citizen.

— Martha MacCallum

Women are held to a different standard than men. That is indisputable.

— Jessica Tarlov

A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to the same…

— Hillary Clinton

Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women,…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Although I entertain great respect and regard for the female sex I consider the qualifications of the ladies to be already sufficiently charming without…

— James Francis

Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

— Alice Paul

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

— St. Jerome

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under…

— Carolyn Maloney

The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

— Anonymous