Women's Rights Quotes - Page 14

• If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, it is that human rights are women's rights — and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely — and the right to be heard.

  Hillary Clinton

  Acceptance, Rights, Speak

  "Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton: United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, September 5-6, 1995, China".

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• Let us have a fair field! This is all we ask, and we will be content with nothing less. The finger of evolution, which touches everything, is laid tenderly upon women. They have on their side all the elements of progress, and its spirit stirs within them. They are fighting, not for themselves alone, but for the future of humanity. Let them have a fair field!

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Fighting, Humanity, Progress

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• Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society of men and women in reciprocal relation. We do not have the society of human beings.

  Laura Riding

  Equality, Men, Relation

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• Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Uprising, Feminist

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Matilda Gage (2017). “HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Trilogy – Part 1 (Illustrated): The Origin of the Movement - Lives and Battles of Pioneer Suffragists (Including Letters, Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)”, p.2575, e-artnow

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

  Margaret Mead

  Time, Women, Bad Ass

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in "La Abogada" newsletter, Volume 3, by International Federation of Women Lawyers (p. 5), 1967.

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• I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

  Alanis Morissette

  Inspirational, Motivational, Caring

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• It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

  Susan Sarandon

  Jobs, Women, Good Job

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• I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Women, Careers

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.887, Open Road Media

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• Most women are one man away from welfare.

  Gloria Steinem

  Equality, Men, Feminist

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• People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

  Eddie Vedder

  Religious, Growing Up, Animal

  "Pearl Jam: 'People get that this means something'" by Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2009.

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• Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Interesting, Feminism

  A Room of One's Own ch. 2 (1929)

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• I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Diversity, Poetry

  A Room of One's Own ch. 3 (1929)

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• But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Fighting, Feminism, Battle

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• I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Freedom, Women, Equality

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.66, Variocity

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• I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Heart, Mind, Wish

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria”, p.303, Broadview Press

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• The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

  Charles Fourier

  Women, Equality, Sisterhood

  Theory of Four Movements vol. 2, ch. 4 (1808)

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• 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.

  Jane Rule

  Boys, Feminist, Grace

  Jane Rule (2013). “Lesbian Images: Essays”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Friday, Destiny, Rights

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price. It is for them to show their gratitude by helping onward the reforms of their own times, by spreading the light of freedom and of truth still wider. The debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future.

  Abigail Scott Duniway

  Gratitude, Women, Writing

  "Westward the Women". Book by Nancy Wilson Ross, March 15, 2016.

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• Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Girl, Growing Up, Women

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• ...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

  Arundhati Roy

  Women, Struggle, Heart

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.351, Penguin Books India

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• Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but because she has come to know that for eight years she had lived with a stranger and borne him children. Can there be anything more humiliating, more degrading than a life-long proximity between two strangers? No need for the woman to know anything of the man, save his income. As to the knowledge of the woman-what is there to know except that she has a pleasing appearance?

  Emma Goldman

  Marriage, Husband, Children

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Marriage and Love”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.

  Zainab Salbi

  Loss, Rights, Speaks Out

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• power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Change, Powerful, Fear

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• My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified. ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?

  Rosalynn Carter

  Disappointment, Years, White

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