Women's Rights Quotes - Page 11

• I care deeply about women's rights. I have been an outspoken advocate for them for many years and as secretary of state I carried that message around the world because empowering women, providing for women's rights, their full participation in society, politics, the economy is not only a matter of individuals being able to chart their own futures. It's good for democracy and it's good for peace and prosperity.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, Rights, Empowering

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• Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

  Liz Stanley

  Reality, Ideas, People

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• When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Mother, Husband, Pain

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• 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.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Rights, Support

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• No American president can support an Egypt that calls into question the historic treaty between Israel and Egypt. And no American president can support an Egypt that doesn't fully recognize women's rights or the rights of religious minorities.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Religious, Rights, Israel

  "Muslim Brotherhood's rise sparks concern democracy will be fleeting in Egypt", www.foxnews.com. July 2, 2012.

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• When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.

  Abigail Scott Duniway

  Women, World, Has Beens

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• I have no use for "men's rights," any more than I have any use for "women's rights," but let us ask: Who was it that decided it was a good idea to politicize love, sex and marriage? Who spent the past four decades proclaiming that "the personal is political," so that every office flirtation and every petty domestic quarrel is a federal civil rights violation? The damned feminists, that's who.

  Robert Stacy McCain

  Sex, Past, Men

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• We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Women, Feminism, Needs

  "Feminism's Assumptions Upended" by Barbara Ehrenreich, articles.latimes.com. May 16, 2004.

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• What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into them. We need a feminism that teaches a woman to say no - not just to the date rapist or overly insistent boyfriend but, when necessary, to the military or corporate hierarchy within which she finds herself. We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Military, Women, Feminism

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• Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we have been silenced. We have to help our daughters. Understanding it within ourselves and helping our young girls stand up for themselves is one way.

  Jane Fonda

  Girl, Daughter, Women

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• Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sex, Men, World

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.60, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for economic and social emancipation .

  Kumari Jayawardena

  Country, Women, Struggle

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• For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to prevent and/or punish this violence through religion, law, or custom, openly or tacitly approved it. .....The reason violence against women and children is finally out in the open is that activists have brought it to global attention.

  Riane Eisler

  Children, Women, Law

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• Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.

  Ralph Nader

  Rights, Our Generation, Abolition Of Slavery

  Ralph Nader (2014). “Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State”, p.192, Nation Books

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• I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all. Please join me in supporting Planned Parenthood's vital work to protect access to reproductive health care and real sex education worldwide.

  Kathleen Turner

  Sex, Real, Women

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• Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me. But they all seem to. It doesn’t matter what country they’re in or what religion they claim. They all want to control women. They want to control how we dress. They want to control how we act. They even want to control the decisions we make about our own health and our own bodies. Yes, it is hard to believe but even here at home we have to stand up for women’s rights and we have to reject efforts to marginalize any one of us, because America has to set an example for the entire world.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Believe, Home

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• Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so.... It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity.... It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Kings, Women, Pride

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• It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Men, Errors, Brain

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

  Sheila Rowbotham

  Men, Feminist, Feminism

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• In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.

  Azar Nafisi

  Islamic, Past, Years

  "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

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• According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.

  Michel Chossudovsky

  Concentration Of Wealth, Rights, World

  "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

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• The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Leadership, Discrimination, Social

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• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Sex, Writing

  Letter to Sir Theodore Martin, 29 May 1870

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• Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do. I recognize no rights but human rights – I know nothing of men’s rights and women’s rights; for in Christ Jesus, there is neither male nor female. It is my solemn conviction, that, until this principle of equality is recognised and embodied in practice, the Church can do nothing effectual for the permanent reformation of the world.

  Angelina Grimke

  Jesus, Men, Rights

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• The key thing is to ensure that we give the criminal-justice system the tools it needs, so that women's rights are turned into reality. It is not enough to say domestic violence is a crime ?- in order for the laws to be successful, lawyers and courts must have the necessary means to prosecute it.

  Jon Kyl

  Mean, Successful, Reality

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