Women's Rights Quotes - Page 5

• advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Mother, Children, Opportunity

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• The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.

  Lillian Wald

  Happiness, Women, Tasks

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• All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

  John Legend

  Independent, Men, Rights

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• Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide

  Meg Ryan

  Change, Mother, Children

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• I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.

  Lucretia Mott

  Rights, Important, Grew Up

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• The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

  Merlin Stone

  Rights, Suppression, Rite

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• I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mother, Rights, Wife

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “Living History”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Country, Women, Ignorance

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ann Dexter Gordon (1997). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the school of anti-slavery, 1840 to 1866”, p.77, Rutgers University Press

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• The strength of women and women's rights around the world are especially important because that affects children and families. And the cascade effect is remarkable.

  Cindy McCain

  Children, Rights, Important

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Inspirational, Witty, Women

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• We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward.

  Bernie Sanders

  Rights, Retreat, Women's Rights

  "United Against the War on Women". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.

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• We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Women, Empowering, Feminist

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.268, Northwestern University Press

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• The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Women, Equality, Government

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

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• I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.

  Amartya Sen

  Real, Women, Opportunity

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• I’m an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women’s rights.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Atheist, Believe, Rights

  "Taslima Nasrin: “A Writer On Trial”". Interview with Kerry O'Brien, atheistfoundation.org.au. July 1995.

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• Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Women, Equality, Hymns

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.22

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• No election is ever just about one issue, but I care a lot about women's rights and making sure parents have what they need to raise healthy kids. I always have cared, but having just had a child, I know how serious it is to be a mother.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Mother, Children, Kids

  "Chrissy Teigen Thinks Ivanka Trump 'Should Probably Run for Office One Day'". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. September 8, 2016.

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• The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.

  Abigail Adams

  Sex, Class, Intellectual

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.24

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• Fate handed Barack Obama the best of all political gifts - a dyspeptic, surly, spiteful opposition on the one hand and very unpopular financiers on the other - and he wouldn't come out punching, name names, or go for the jugular. It was as if while getting mugged by guys with brass knuckles, he turned the other cheek. He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women's rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.

  Bill Moyers

  Writing, Fate, Doors

  Source: progressive.org

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• Many [most] of Ivanka's [Trump] ideals are the platform of the democratic party. Her father [Donald Trump] has never mentioned anything she spoke about in her RNC speech. He doesn't talk about childcare, equal pay, women's rights.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Father, Party, Rights

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I take great solace in the fact that Donald Trump lost the popular vote. Hillary Clinton got over 2.5 million more votes than Donald Trump got. So I can't say in any way that the people think that harassing women is appropriate. So I don't think we should read into his victory the fact that, you know, women's rights are going to be diminished.

  Barbara Boxer

  Thinking, Popular Vote, Rights

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• When I was secretary of state, I went around the world advocating for America, but also advocating for women's rights, to make sure that women had a decent chance to have a better life and negotiated a treaty with Russia to lower nuclear weapons. Four hundred pieces of legislation have my name on it as a sponsor or cosponsor when I was a senator for eight years.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, Russia, Eight

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.

  Pink

  Thinking, Rights, Iraq

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• We got the Supreme Court, we pressured the Supreme Court into supporting women's rights to choose.

  Jill Stein

  Rights, Court, Supreme

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

  Adora Svitak

  Girl, Rights, Looks

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