Action Quote by Tara Moss

“Women must show their public face. We must help to work out our own community problems. We must insist on having equal voices and…

— Joan Biskupic

As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and…

— Mahnaz Afkhami

Women's progress has been a collective effort.

— Gloria Steinem

Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access…

— Adora Svitak

There are many structural changes, both in organizational practice and social policy, that must also change to enable men and women to have the…

— Stewart D. Friedman

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

— Patricia Ireland

Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit.

— Muriel Fox

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

— Steven Pinker

If they [women] are to be integrated more fully into our society than has been the case so far, changes in individual attitudes of…

— Alva Myrdal

As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action…

— Michelle Bachelet

When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's…

— Joe Biden

Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter