| "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 |

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| "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) |
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"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 |
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