Women's Rights Quotes - Page 5

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

  Lillian Wald

  Happiness, Women, Tasks

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• advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Mother, Children, Opportunity

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• All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

  John Legend

  Independent, Men, Rights

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• Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide

  Meg Ryan

  Change, Mother, Children

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• 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.

  Lucretia Mott

  Rights, Important, Grew Up

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• The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

  Merlin Stone

  Rights, Suppression, Rite

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• I’m an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women’s rights.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Atheist, Believe, Rights

  "Taslima Nasrin: “A Writer On Trial”". Interview with Kerry O'Brien, atheistfoundation.org.au. July 1995.

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• The strength of women and women's rights around the world are especially important because that affects children and families. And the cascade effect is remarkable.

  Cindy McCain

  Children, Rights, Important

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mother, Rights, Wife

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “Living History”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward.

  Bernie Sanders

  Rights, Retreat, Women's Rights

  "United Against the War on Women". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.

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• Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Women, Equality, Hymns

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.22

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• I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.

  Amartya Sen

  Real, Women, Opportunity

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• The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Women, Equality, Government

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

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• The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Country, Women, Ignorance

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ann Dexter Gordon (1997). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the school of anti-slavery, 1840 to 1866”, p.77, Rutgers University Press

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• Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Inspirational, Witty, Women

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• We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Women, Empowering, Feminist

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.268, Northwestern University Press

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• I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.

  Ani DiFranco

  Women, Moving, Long

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• Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

  Adora Svitak

  Girl, Rights, Looks

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• The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Women, Equality, Sisterhood

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Women, Rights

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• Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside the home and those who dedicate themselves with more altruism than any profession I know to being wives and mothers, cooks and chauffeurs, and child psychologists and loving human beings.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Mother, Children, Home

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• For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged as mistress of herself. For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES.

  Ernestine Rose

  Women, Lying, Ideas

  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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• If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.

  Jane Fonda

  Girl, Women, Future

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• You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.

  Lillian Gish

  Mother, Husband, Father

  Quoted in Abby Adams, An Uncommon Scold (1989)

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• Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

  Marya Mannes

  Mother, Wife, Feminist

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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