Reason Quote by Olympe de Gouges

Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no longer surrounded…

— Olympe de Gouges

“I am protecting women's rights, their human right to decide their futures for themselves, and to live their lives as they see fit.”

— Dr. Willie Parker

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also…

— Toni Morrison

My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight…

— Maajid Nawaz

You know, I hear all these things about women's rights.

— Nigel Farage

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

— Horace Mann

When a woman is exhorted to be compliant, cooperative, and quiet, to not make upset or go against the old guard, she is pressed…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

— Susan B. Anthony

Through the 1990s, 'Reason' was a voice of 'dissident feminism,' upholding the equal dignity of both sexes and supporting the rights of individuals against…

— Virginia Postrel

“perhaps the greatest challenge to thinking women is the challenge to move from the desire for safety and approval to the most "unfeminine" quality…

— Gerda Lerner

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

— Doris Lessing