Women's Rights Quotes - Page 13

• As a Goodwill Ambassador for UNIFEM, I've learned that violence against women knows no boundaries. Join me in helping women worldwide who have suffered unthinkable violence.

  Nicole Kidman

  Women, Domestic Violence, Ambassadors

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• I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

  Marlo Thomas

  Girl, Feminist, Wish

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• I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.

  Margaret Trudeau

  Men, Rose, Feminist

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• I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem.

  Jerry Falwell

  Hate, Home, Men

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• Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.

  Abby May Alcott

  Pride, Silence, Yoke

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• We need to make equal pay and equal opportunity for women and girls a reality so women's rights are human rights once and for all.

  Hillary Clinton

  Girl, Opportunity, Reality

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• During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Numbers, Body

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• It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Selfish, Men, Political

  Tribune (London), 12 Mar. 1906

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• It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.

  Claudette Colbert

  Feminist, Feminism, Matter

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• No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.

  Moses Sofer

  Feminist, Feminism, World

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• Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

  Evelyn Cunningham

  Feminist, Feminism, Groups

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• The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as that people of all races and creeds have equal rights, that women should be free from all forms of coercion, that children should never, ever be spanked, that students should be protected from bullying, and that there’s nothing wrong with being gay. I don’t find it at all implausible that these are gifts, in part, of a refined and widening application of reason.

  Steven Pinker

  Bullying, Children, Gay

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• In the fight for women's rights, the support of men remains crucial.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Men, Rights

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• There was a time when women activists asked men to stand up for their rights. But this time we will do it by ourselves. I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women’s rights, but I am focusing on women to be independent and fight for themselves.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Independent, Fighting, Men

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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  I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.

  Alice Paul

  Women, Mosaics, Movement

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• [When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent - create, in fact - can belong to anyone but myself! I wish that women could be dealt with, not mercifully, not compassionately, nor affectionately, but justly; it would be so much better - for the men.

  Fanny Kemble

  Husband, Men, Wish

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• Give a woman a job and she grows balls.

  Jack Gelber

  Jobs, Giving, Feminist

  Jack Gelber (1974). “The Apple & Square in the Eye”

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• We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women

  Sima Samar

  Women, Rights, Government

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• People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's rights, and peace.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Thinking, Talking, Voice

  "Interview: Even If Its People Hate Me, I Will Still Love Pakistan, Says Malala". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Interview, www.rferl.org. October 08, 2013.

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• I think it’s important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons.

  Laura Bush

  Thinking, Important, Wade

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• The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Rights, Movement, Women's Rights

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• What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets.

  Ernestine Rose

  Fashion, Rights, Law

  "The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose, Syracuse". Book by Carol A. Kolmerten (p.49), 1999.

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• The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure

  Patty Duke

  Awards, Rights, Treasure

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.295, Bantam

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• If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don't have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal.

  Bernie Sanders

  Gay, Rights, Views

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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