Women's Rights Quotes
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Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all -- every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.
-- Bella AbzugThe test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
-- -- Bella Abzug
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
-- Abigail Adams“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”
-- Abigail Adams
The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.
-- Mahnaz AfkhamiWomen's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.
-- Mahnaz Afkhami
International Women's Day on March 8 and Women's Equality Day, on August 26 (commemorating the certification of the 19th Amendment which granted women the right to vote), are important annual rallying points to help eliminate discrimination and build support for the rights of women everywhere.
-- Robert Alan
"…gender equality is critical to the development and peace of every nation."
-- Kofi Annan"…there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women."
-- Kofi Annan"women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality.
-- Kofi AnnanWhen women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.
-- Kofi Annan
"The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race."
-- Susan B. Anthony
"Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences."
-- Susan B. Anthony"Independence is happiness." -- Susan B. Anthony
"There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers." -- Susan B. Anthony
"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself and there I take my stand." -- Susan B. Anthony
"The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind."
-- Mary Ritter Beard (1876-1958),"For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women."
-- Elizabeth Blackwell (The first woman in the U.S. to become a physician)"If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled."
-- Elizabeth Blackwell
It will not do to say that it is out of woman's sphere to assist in making laws, for if that were so, then it should be also out of her sphere to submit to them.
-- Amelia Bloomer
“Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world–a questioning of power/domination issues, an affirmation of women’s energy.”
-- Charlotte Bunch“We have to start looking at the world through women’s eyes’ how are human rights, peace and development defined from the perspective of the lives of women? It’s also important to look at the world from the perspective of the lives of diverse women, because there is not single women’s view, any more than there is a single men’s view.”
-- Charlotte Bunch
Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.
-- Charlotte Bunch“The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.”
-- Charlotte BunchWomen have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.”
-- Charlotte Bunch
Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government.
-- Carrie Chapman Catt
Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.
-- Judy Chicago"Educate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a family."
-- A.Cripps
Women's Rights Quotes
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WOMEN'S RIGHTS
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Mahnaz Afkhami | Ani DiFranco | Betty Friedan |
Anne Hathaway | Marilee Karl
Alice Paul | Arundhati Roy | Victoria WoodhullIntl. Women's Day - March 8
Women's Equality Day - August 26
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