Women's Rights Quotes - Page 12

• While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.

  Robert Burns

  Kings, Children, Humorous

  Robert Burns, Robert Chambers (1838). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. To which are Now Added, Notes Illustrating Historical, Personal, and Local Allusions. [The Editor's Preface Signed: R. C., I.e. Robert Chambers.]”, p.85

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• Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?

  Erica Jong

  Fashion, Passion, Feminist

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The US is off the spectrum in religious commitment. It's been increasing since 1980 but it's a major part of the voting base of the Republican Party so that means committing to anti-abortion positions, opposing women's rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Religious, Party, Mean

  "Talking With Chomsky". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.counterpunch.org. April 30, 2012.

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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 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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• 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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• There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.

  Anne Nicol Gaylor

  Roots, Rights, Causes

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• It's wonderful to watch pretty women with character grow beautiful.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Beautiful, Character, Feminist

  "Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin".

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• I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.

  Jean Sasson

  Rights, Links, Weakest Link

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• Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they’d had to share their rooms with others.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Girl, Suicide, Depressing

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• How do you feel about women's rights? I like either side of them.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

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• Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

  Interview with Kerry O'Brien on "Lateline", ABC TV, 1995.

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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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• Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for years and I know how challenging it is to change our political system and I have the highest regard for those who have put themselves on the line.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Years, Political

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Don't miss out on the love of a good women,son. No matter what that old man of yours tells you,love is real.I'd have never had the success in my life without the women right there.She's been my backbone.She's been my reason for everything I've ever done.One day your drive to make a name for yourself will begin to drift away. It won't be that important anymore.But when you're doing it for someone else, someone you would move heaven and earth for then you never lose the desire to succeed.I can't imagine this world without her in it.I don't ever want to.

  Abbi Glines

  Real, Moving, Son

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• Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Heaven, Earth, Philosopher

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.

  Eve Ensler

  Numbers, House, One Day

  Eve Ensler (2010). “I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World”, p.43, Villard

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