Women's Rights Quotes - Page 6

• The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Women, Equality, Sisterhood

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the leading women's rights advocates gained experience as organizers and lecturers.

  Manisha Sinha

  Rights, Movement, Forget

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the United States until very recently. Women's rights were unheard of. Civil rights proponents were horribly treated, not just in the South. It was awful there, but pretty bad here. Environmental issues did not exist. Opposition to aggression was virtually zero. In fact, so little, that to this day, even scholarship mentions the Vietnam War as beginning in 1965.

  Noam Chomsky

  Zero, War, Rights

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Women, Rights

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• I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.

  Ani DiFranco

  Women, Moving, Long

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• There's an effort on the part of many people to attack women's rights, women's health, and the ability to control our own lives. No doubt about it. And it is not a majority of the country, in any way, shape, or form. I know on the contraceptive issue, 70 percent of the country agrees with me. Will that stop my opponents? No. Because they are so radical. They chip away and chip away.

  Barbara Boxer

  Country, Issues, Rights

  Source: progressive.org

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• You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.

  Lillian Gish

  Mother, Husband, Father

  Quoted in Abby Adams, An Uncommon Scold (1989)

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• Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value.

  Ralph Nader

  Wife, House, Feminist

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• Every day we hear about the dangers of cancer, heart disease and AIDS. But how many of us realize that, in much of the world, the act of giving life to a child is still the biggest killer of women of child-bearing age?

  Liya Kebede

  Children, Women, Cancer

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• I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful, because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Women, Thinking, Justice

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• It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world. I am blessed to be able to work at a job I love and also give back in the most vital way-to people in need.

  Teri Hatcher

  Jobs, Women, Blessed

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• There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.

  Moby

  Keys, Rights, Differences

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• True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

  Emma Goldman

  Rights, Broken, Feminism

  "Anarchism and Other Essays".

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• We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

  Clara Zetkin

  Spiritual, Women, Rights

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• Todays decisions are tomorrows realities. Remember you have three choices: take it, leave it or change it.

  Marsha Petrie Sue

  Reality, Remember You, Remembers You

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• It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Rights, Numbers, Conscious

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• Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .

  Annie Laurie Gaylor

  Rights, Enemy, Organized

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• Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Learning, Rights, Abolitionist

  Journal, June, 1860.

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• The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

  Shana Alexander

  Change, Rights, Law

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

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• Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.

  Martha Plimpton

  Rights, Needs, Movement

  "Uniting on the War Against Women" by Marcia G. Yerman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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• We need a Supreme Court that will stand up on behalf of women's rights, on behalf of the rights of the LGBT community, that will stand up and say no to Citizens United, a decision that has undermined the election system in our country because of the way it permits dark, unaccountable money to come into our electoral system.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Dark, Lgbt Community

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• In the 1980s, I was working to reform the schools in Arkansas. Donald Trump was borrowing $14 million from his father to start his businesses. In the 1990s, I went to Beijing and I said women's rights are human rights. He insulted a former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado, called her an eating machine.

  Hillary Clinton

  Father, School, Rights

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• I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.

  Kathleen Turner

  Women, Dedicated, Reproductive Health

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• I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women

  Nicole Kidman

  Women, Giving, Pandemics

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• There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Two, Competition, Stronger

  Speech at Islamia College for women, March 25, 1940.

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