Best Womens Rights Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 11

“Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.”

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Author:Nicole Kidman

“One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.”

“I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.”

Girl Wish Feminism Married Feminist Womens Rights

Author:Marlo Thomas

“Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.”

Groups Feminism Feminist Intimate Our Society Association Womens Rights Oppressed

Author:Evelyn Cunningham

“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.”

Feels Women Study Doubt Feminism Capacity Feminist Pursuit No Doubt Womens Rights Trifles Ingenuity Undertakings Women Rights Women Right

Author:Julia Ward Howe

“No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.”

World Feminism Feminist Destroying Womens Rights

Author:Moses Sofer

“Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.”

“It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.”

Matter Faces Feminism Feminist Womens Rights

Author:Claudette Colbert

“Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.”

Men Has Beens Feminism Feminist Chains Womens Rights Anatomy Forged

Author:Estelle Ramey

“I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem.”

Men Needs Has Beens Problem Home Hate House Feminism Married Mad Feminist Radical Permission Womens Rights Bathroom Hate Me Sexist Gals Time Of Day Anti Feminist Casper

Author:Jerry Falwell

“I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.”

Men I Can Feminism Rose Feminist Womens Rights

Author:Margaret Trudeau

“Give a woman a job and she grows balls.”

Giving Jobs Grows Feminism Balls Feminist Womens Rights

Book:The Apple & Square in the Eye

Source: The Apple & Square in the Eye

“It's wonderful to watch pretty women with character grow beautiful.”

Character Beautiful Grows Watches Wonderful Feminism Feminist Womens Rights Pretty Woman

Author:Mignon McLaughlin

“No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.”

Men Feminism Feminist Feminine Womens Rights Anti Feminist Inspirational Feminist

Author:Frank O'Connor

“When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.”

People Persons Two Eye Law Marriage Feminism Husband Feminist Womens Rights That One Person

Book:Shana Alexander's State-by-State guide to women's legal rights

Source: Shana Alexander's State-by-State guide to women's legal rights

“Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?”

Has Beens Problem Passion Feminism Century Fashion Feminist Womens Rights Love Fashion Adornment

Author:Erica Jong

“Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value.”

Want Young Values House Wife Feminism Feminist Corporate Assets Womens Rights Suburbs Respectability Young Wife

Author:Ralph Nader

“I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.”

Want Boys Grace Feminism Feminist Height Womens Rights Outraged

Book:Lesbian Images: Essays

Source: Lesbian Images: Essays

“We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.”

Ifs Way Long Would Be Power Feminism Havens Baby Calling Feminist Womens Rights Long Way

Author:Elizabeth Janeway

“The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.”

Littles Girl Sex Boys Feminism Teaching Feminist Womens Rights Rift

Book:Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?”

“What is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in?”

Ifs Country Use Fighting Women Vote Womens Rights

Author:Emmeline Pankhurst

“The message of our campaign is "Make every mother and child count". This campaign is not just about health. It is also a powerful call for radical progress in women's rights and the rights of their children. Too often, the health of mothers and children does not count. In too many parts of the world, they are forgotten.”

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Author:Liya Kebede

“I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.”

Thinking World Children Important Actors Women Issues Rights Health Cancer Committed Around The World Womens Rights Ovarian Cancer

Author:Nicole Kidman

“Full democracy requires the full participation of women. Your voices are vital. The word 'vital' means necessary for life. A democracy, to be fully alive, must include all its citizens.”

Mean Women Voice Democracy Alive Citizens Womens Rights Citizenship Participation

Author:Swanee Hunt

“What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.”

Feelings Success Found Women Realizing Ideals Satisfaction Womens Rights Self Reliance Applause Exactly Is

Author:Anna Pavlova

“Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.”

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Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“In the fight for women's rights, the support of men remains crucial.”

Men Fighting Support Rights Remains Lgbt Crucial Womens Rights

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Being asked to serve as UN Women’s Goodwill Ambassador is truly humbling. The chance to make a real difference is not an opportunity that everyone is given and is one I have no intention of taking lightly. Women’s rights are something so inextricably linked with who I am, so deeply personal and rooted in my life that I can’t imagine an opportunity more exciting. I still have so much to learn, but as I progress I hope to bring more of my individual knowledge, experience and awareness to this role.”

“The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure”

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Book:Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness

Source: Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”

“We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why, but I see women being put back in their place. And I hate it. We're losing all we worked so hard for.”

Knows Hard Today Hate Rights Seeing Feminism Losing Opposites I Hate Womens Rights

Author:Stevie Nicks

“I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.”

Important Rights Grew Grew Up Womens Rights Important Questions

Author:Lucretia Mott

“Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can't take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can't take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.”

Ifs Should Humans Whole Care Issues Our Lives Benefits Aspect Fundamentals Privilege Critical Take Care Range Abortion Womens Rights

Author:Faye Wattleton

“I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.”

Men Love Real Reason Individual Demand Fellows Womens Rights Submission Homage Vindication

Book:A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

“It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.”

States Government Decision Stranger Abortion Womens Rights Legislators Unthinkable Personal Decisions

Book:A question of choice

Source: A question of choice

“Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that is... bigger than the transatlantic slave trade was in the nineteenth. They will be perplexed that we shrugged as a lack of investment in maternal health caused half a million women to perish in childbirth each year.”

Source: Half The Sky: How to Change the World

“The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.”

Firsts Children Reason Tests Womens Rights Lifeboats

Author:Jean Kerr

“There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.”

Ifs Real Powerful Rights Movement Painting International Womens Rights Sculpture Men Women Philanthropist Donate Real Women

Book:Half the Sky

Source: Half the Sky

“The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.”

Men World Needs Humans Happiness Women Half Men And Women Tasks Active Cooperation Womens Rights One Half Human Happiness

Author:Lillian Wald

“I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.”

Feels Littles Ends Women Movement Stones Womens Rights Mosaics Equal Rights Amendment

Author:Alice Paul

“If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.”

Ifs President Worry Republican Vote Democrat Conservative Silly Womens Rights Right To Vote

Author:Ann Coulter

“There was a time when women activists asked men to stand up for their rights. But this time we will do it by ourselves. I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women’s rights, but I am focusing on women to be independent and fight for themselves.”

Men Fighting Social Steps Rights Independent Activist Womens Rights

Author:Malala Yousafzai

“The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her campaign for girls' education and women's rights.”

Important Girl Support Rights Shots Asking Important Things Notes Favors Campaigns Womens Rights Malala

Author:Malala Yousafzai

“Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public employment according to their capacity and without other distinctions besides those of their virtues and talents.”

Eye Law Women Virtue Talent Position Citizens Honor Equal Capacity Female Males Employment Distinction Womens Rights Being Equal

Author:Olympe de Gouges

“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.”

Age Women Ability Race Safe Green Clean Gender Streams Creeds Womens Rights Orientation Women Rights Women Right

Author:Bella Abzug

“We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would be dominated by women.”

Whole Would Be Women Vote Patterns Womens Rights Men Women Idealist

Author:Jessie Daniel Ames

“While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been decidely beneficial.”

Has Beens Whole Political Women Effects Womens Rights Beneficial Suffrage Millennium Women's Suffrage

Author:Jessie Daniel Ames

“...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.”

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Author: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.”

Want Reality Women Dignity International Womens Rights International Women's Day

Author:Kofi Annan

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