Women's Rights Quotes - Page 2

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  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

  Women, Learning, Class

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Medicine as a Profession for Women”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Motivational, Women, Law

  In The Arena.

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• One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

  Marlo Thomas

  Women, Equality, Feminist

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• Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Family, Inspiring, Women

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  Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

  Betty Friedan

  Real, Women, Memorable

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• 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.

  Lucretia Mott

  Inspiring, Justice, Feminist

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

  Estelle Ramey

  Men, Feminist, Feminism

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• I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

  Frances Farenthold

  Running, Men, Justice

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• 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

  Sex, Women, Law

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• ...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Women, Thinking, Government

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  Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Women, Mother And Daughter, Mind

  1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pt.1, ch.2.

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

  Susan B. Anthony

  Law, Helping, Powerful Women

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

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• The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Equality, Creative

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• 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.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Women, Feminist, Doubt

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• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  Abigail Adams

  Women, Hero, Mean

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.153, UPNE

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• Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Respect, Equality, Rights

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• This is your life!!! The children/husbands/lovers are just one chapter. The stronger we (women) get the more loving we can be- to all.

  Cynthia Basinet

  Children, Husband, Women

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

  Lois Wyse

  Inspirational, Sorry, Women

  "The Rules According to Dee Dee Myers". Interview With Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, content.time.com. February 29, 2008.

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• Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

  Robin Morgan

  Inspiring, Bad Ass, Justice

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• You ask whether a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this, there can be but one answer. If she does the same quantity and quality of work under the same conditions as a man, simple justice requires that she should be paid the same. wages. To deny her this is to deny her justice.

  John Peter Altgeld

  Women, Simple, Justice

  John Peter Altgeld (1890). “Live Questions: Including Our Penal Machinery and Its Victims”

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• 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

  Women, Law, Spheres

  Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1994). “Hear Me Patiently: The Reform Speeches of Amelia Jenks Bloomer”, Praeger Pub Text

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• The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Equality, Rights, Connections

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Women, People, History

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

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

  Ann Coulter

  Silly, Worry, President

  Interview with "New York Observer", October 2, 2007.

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• 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.

  Jessie Daniel Ames

  Women, Political, Millennium

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