Autonomy Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.

— Ouida

A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.

— Jean de la Bruyere

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Denying bodily autonomy to control women is antiquated and unacceptable.

— Al N. Green

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

— Samuel Foote

As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize that the…

— Dick Gephardt

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

— Horace Mann

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

— John Brown

There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has a long…

— Rebecca Traister

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

— George Eliot

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

— Jane Campion