Women's Rights Quotes - Page 16

• A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

  Jane Fonda

  Spring, Men, Feminist

  Quoted in Daily Mail (London), 13 Sept. 1989

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• But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

  Jane Fonda

  Women, Liberation, Whole

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• A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Women, Equality, Doe

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Politics, Speak

  Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States. Executive Office of the President (1995). “Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton: United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, September 5-6, 1995, China”

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• No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

  Frank O'Connor

  Men, Feminist, Feminism

  "My Oedipus complex and other stories".

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• When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

  Shana Alexander

  Marriage, Husband, Eye

  Shana Alexander (1975). “Shana Alexander's State-by-State guide to women's legal rights”

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• Women's rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved.

  Fawzia Koofi

  Sacrifice, Rights, Women's Rights

  "Afghan Women and the Return of the Taliban" by Aryn Baker, content.time.com. August 9, 2010.

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• ... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Believe, Mean, Rights

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• Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.

  Qiu Jin

  Country, Men, Two

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• Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of gender-related problems come up in terms of health, education, domestic violence, etc.

  Kumari Jayawardena

  War, Women, Being Single

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• Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Pain, Children, Rights

  "Trayvon Martin Case Reminds Us: Never Be Silent" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2012.

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• A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, A woman's function plainly is... to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Art, Women, Mean

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1864). “Poems”, p.353

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• Why has America's fringe left been making common cause with the Taliban, whose views on such matters as women's rights and separation of church and state are appallingly retrograde by anyone's standards? One reason may be that the Taliban seem to have mastered the language of victimhood, sounding like denizens of some college ethnic-studies department.

  James Taranto

  College, Rights, Views

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• If you believe in equal rights, then what do “women’s rights,” “gay rights,” etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Mean, Gay

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• Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Progress, Humans

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• But fighting to give women and girls a fighting chance isn’t a nice thing to-do. It isn’t some luxury that we get to when we have time on our hands to spend. This is a core imperative for every human being in every society. If we do not continue the campaign for women’s rights and opportunities, the world we want to live, the country we all love and cherish, will not be what it should be.

  Hillary Clinton

  Girl, Country, Nice

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• All citizens including women are equally admissible to all public dignities, offices, and employments, according to their capacity, and with no other distinction than that of their virtues and talents.

  Olympe de Gouges

  Equality, Office, Citizens

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• It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Religious, Educational, Character

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• The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.

  Ann Douglas

  Rights, Progress, Culture

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• Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Women, Kissing, Romantic Love

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.415

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• The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Book, Extremist, Pens

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

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• Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Gains, Social, Women's Rights

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.167, Knopf

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• A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.

  Susan Faludi

  Rights, Justice, Feminism

  1992 Backlash (UK edn), ch.3,'Backlashes Then and Now'.

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• I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Rights, Needs, Slave

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.15

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  In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Badass, Leader, Female

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.182, Knopf

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