Women Rights Quotes

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  • Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

    Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868
  • Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

  • I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

  • Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

  • Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

    "The Rules According to Dee Dee Myers". Interview With Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, content.time.com. February 29, 2008.
  • 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 on which this system still depends.

    Sex   Race   Differences  
  • Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

    Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown
  • 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.

    Sex   Women   Law  
  • If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

  • Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

  • It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

    Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868
  • To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

    "Deeds Not Words" by Bobbie Brinegar, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2016.
  • I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

  • We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

    Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.
  • 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.

  • Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

    Time   Women   Bad Ass  
    Attributed to Margaret Mead in "La Abogada" newsletter, Volume 3, by International Federation of Women Lawyers (p. 5), 1967.
  • I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

    "The Hillary Doctrine". Interview with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, www.newsweek.com. March 6, 2011.
  • I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

    Running   Men   Justice  
  • 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.

    Women   Historical   Mind  
    Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.185, Feminist Press at CUNY
  • Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

    Address to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, delivered 12 March 2010, United Nations, New York
  • The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect with the opposite sex-but what feminism is about is equality and human rights. For me that is just an essential part of my identity. I hope [Girls] contributes to a continuance of feminist dialogue

    Girl   Strong Women   Sex  
  • The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

  • 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.

    Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2
  • I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

    Women   Equality   Rights  
    "Deeds Not Words" by Bobbie Brinegar, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2016.
  • Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

    "Robertson Letter Attacks Feminists". www.nytimes.com. 1992.
  • I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

    "The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft" by Bee Rowlatt, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2015.
  • There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

    "Q&A with Arianna Huffington, co-founder of Huffington Post, on Donald Trump, sleep and the media". Interview with Laura Newberry, www.masslive.com. April 29, 2016.
  • Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

    Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown
  • When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.

  • When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

    Women   Feminist   Doubt  
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