Women's Rights Quotes

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"I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that."
-- Amartya Sen

Women’s voices help balance out the male energy. Until we do that, we are not going to have peace in the world.
-- Barbara Simmons

"The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want."
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion, or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.
-- Gloria Steinem

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.
-- Gloria Steinem

“I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.”
-- Lucy Stone

"Women are the real architects of society."
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again."
-- Sojourner Truth (c. 1797­1883)

"I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all. Please join me in supporting Planned Parenthood's vital work to protect access to reproductive health care and real sex education worldwide."
-- Kathleen Turner

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.
-- Kathleen Turner


"I have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat"
-- Rebecca West, 1913

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so.... It is time to effect a revolution in female manners -- time to restore to them their lost dignity.... It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft

I do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.
-- Victoria Woodhull

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
-- Victoria Woodhull

Women's Rights Quotes

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