Women's Rights Quotes - Page 17

• Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!

  Jennifer Worth

  Mistake, Should Have, Gone

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• men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue that men are not, are simply showing how little they know! And when men's standards are defined as human standards, then women who assert that women are different, demonstrate how 'inhuman' they are. It is a real 'Catch 22.

  Dale Spender

  Real, Men, Cake

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• So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move ahead without woman's sharing in the movement, and to help give a right impetus to that movement is woman's highest privilege.

  Frances Harper

  Women, Moving, Giving

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• As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has already gained bears the promise of the rising of the full-orbed sun of emancipation. The result will be not to make home less happy, but society more holy.

  Frances Harper

  Home, Political, Promise

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• And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work

  Karen Morley

  Rights, Equal Pay, Spokes

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• I HAVE REALIZED THAT FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS HAS TOO OFTEN BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH MAN-HATING. IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW FOR CERTAIN, IT IS THAT THIS HAS TO STOP.

  Emma Watson

  Hate, Fighting, Men

  United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014

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• Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire chief.

  Hillel Neuer

  Religious, Fire, Rights

  "UN-real: Saudi Arabia, China among nations vying for seats on Human Rights Council". www.foxnews.com. October 22, 2013.

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• the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.

  Susan Faludi

  Feminism, Lists, Problem

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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  My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Mother, Women, Independent

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• If the world was taking care of women, women would take care of the world.

  Jane Roberts

  Women, World, Care

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• My friends, do we realize for what purpose we are convened? Do we fully understand that we aim at nothing less than an entire subversion of the present order of society, a dissolution of the whole existing social compact?

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Order, Purpose, Realizing

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• If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Thinking, Rights, Talking

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• We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Believe, Hard Work, Past

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Powerful, Real, Rights

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.250, Vintage

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• We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pursuing my unimpeded way through life, never having to stop to explain, defend or apologize for my sex.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Sex, Peaceful, Normal

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• Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Men, Law, Sexism

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• Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track; if good, forward.

  Joseph Cook

  Rights, Track, Want

  Joseph Cook (1880). “Socialism: With Preludes on Current Events”

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• there were some Labourists saying that other things must be dealt with before women got the vote. It was humanly natural that they, as men, should say so. Our business as women was to recognize this and act accordingly.

  Christabel Pankhurst

  Men, Vote, Natural

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• I can do as much work as any man ... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights, we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough of our own.

  Sojourner Truth

  Writing, Men, Rights

  Ernest J. Gaines, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Pete Seeger (2000). “The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings”

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• If men will not do us justice, they shall do us violence.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Men, Justice, Violence

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• Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  War, Women, Doe

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• the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall.

  Susan Faludi

  Powerful, Lying, Winning

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

  Horace Mann

  Rights, Attention, Command

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• Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Men, World, Scylla

  Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology”

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• Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Rights, People, Agendas

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