Women's Rights Quotes - Page 13

• 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.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Baby, Power, Long

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

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Girl, Sex, Teaching

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.581, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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?

  Holly Near

  Women, Believe, Gay

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

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Country, Women, Fighting

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• 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.

  Liya Kebede

  Mother, Powerful, Children

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• 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.

  Nicole Kidman

  Children, Women, Cancer

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• 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.

  Swanee Hunt

  Women, Mean, Voice

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• 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.

  Anna Pavlova

  Success, Women, Exactly Is

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Men, Rights

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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

  Patty Duke

  Awards, Rights, Treasure

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.295, Bantam

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  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.

  Alice Paul

  Women, Mosaics, Movement

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• 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.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Independent, Fighting, Men

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

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• Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.

  Abby May Alcott

  Pride, Silence, Yoke

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• We need to make equal pay and equal opportunity for women and girls a reality so women's rights are human rights once and for all.

  Hillary Clinton

  Girl, Opportunity, Reality

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• We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women

  Sima Samar

  Women, Rights, Government

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• I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

  Zainab Salbi

  Rights, Order, Needs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The problem is sitting in the birthplace of Islam, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where this interpretation of Islam has gone out into the world over the last four decades, creating militancy groups from Indonesia, to now, San Bernardino, California, vicious attack. We have to take back the faith. And we have to take it back with the principles of peace, social justice, and human rights, women's rights, and secularize governance.

  Chuck Todd

  Creating, Rights, California

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Rights, Movement, Women's Rights

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• If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don't have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal.

  Bernie Sanders

  Gay, Rights, Views

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's rights, and peace.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Thinking, Talking, Voice

  "Interview: Even If Its People Hate Me, I Will Still Love Pakistan, Says Malala". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Interview, www.rferl.org. October 08, 2013.

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• What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets.

  Ernestine Rose

  Fashion, Rights, Law

  "The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose, Syracuse". Book by Carol A. Kolmerten (p.49), 1999.

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• [When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent - create, in fact - can belong to anyone but myself! I wish that women could be dealt with, not mercifully, not compassionately, nor affectionately, but justly; it would be so much better - for the men.

  Fanny Kemble

  Husband, Men, Wish

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• even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but one constitution that ought to be held sacred, and that is the human constitution.

  Ernestine Rose

  Needs, Sacred, Constitution

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Without the means to prevent, and to control the timing of, conception, economic and political rights have limited meaning for women. If women cannot plan their pregnancies, they can plan little else in their lives.

  Alice S Rossi

  Pregnancy, Mean, Rights

  Alice S. Rossi (1973). “The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir”, p.517, UPNE

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• The backlash against women's rights would be just one of several powerful forces creating a harsh and painful climate for women at work. Reagonomics, the recession, and the expansion of a minimum-wage service economy also helped, in no small measure, to slow and even undermine women's momentum in the job market. But the backlash did more than impede women's opportunities for employment, promotions, and better pay. Its spokesmen kept the news of many of these setbacks from women. Not only did the backlash do grievous damage to working women C it did on the sly.

  Susan Faludi

  Jobs, Powerful, Opportunity

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