Aspect Quote by R. Heber Newton

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

— Nelson Mandela

“Women’s rights and economic development within a country are highly correlated.”

— Gregg Hurwitz

What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors…

— Ernestine Rose

“Women's rights must not be treated as trivial adjuncts to great questions of war and peace, poverty and development. What's at stake are not…

— Michelle Goldberg

[M]any females would, even assuming complete economic equality between the sexes, prefer residing with males or peddling their asses on the street, thereby having…

— Valerie Solanas

“Feminists know that if women are paid equal wages for equal work, women will gain sexual as well as economic independence. But feminists have…

— Andrea Dworkin

We are always told that with women's rights and opportunities for women there's been constant progress, and it isn't true. It works in cycles.

— Celine Sciamma

Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman…

— Simone de Beauvoir

It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find…

— Ernestine Rose

Whatever reforms are carried out in the economy, without deep going changes in mens mentality in their opinion about femininity womens equality may not…

— Vellupillai Pirapakaran

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

— Horace Mann