Women's Rights Quotes - Page 9

• Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  People, Majority, Republican

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1867). “Address in favor of Universal Suffrage, for the Election of Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, etc”, p.23

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• With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with the feminist ideal of education accepted in home and school, and with all special barriers removed in every field of human activity, there is no reason why woman should not become almost a human thing. It will be time enough then to consider whether she has a soul.

  Crystal Eastman

  School, Home, Motherhood

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Men, Average, Trying

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who lives in partnership with someone he likes and respects, and the kind of man who considers breast-augmentation surgery self-improvement.

  Anna Quindlen

  Men, Dedication, Self

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.140, Ballantine Books

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• While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned ... The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sex, Men, Wizards

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.156, tredition

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• I finally got it: empower girls and everything changes.

  Jane Fonda

  Girl, Empowering, Things Change

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• Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery.

  Emma Goldman

  Expression, Broken, Slavery

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.178, University of Illinois Press

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• I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the children they now have, than to bring others into the world who would not belong to me after they were born.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.

  Lillie Devereux Blake

  Mean, Earning, Poor

  Lillie Devereux Blake (1874). “Fettered for Life, Or, Lord and Master: A Story of To-day”, p.53

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• All the work I did was to challenge politics, culture, and women's rights. I felt like I really wanted to break out. That's why I wanted to use graffiti. It's more open. I don't need people to come to an exhibition. Graffiti gives a voice to the walls.

  Malina Suliman

  Wall, Rights, Voice

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

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• When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world... There is a stimulative and ripple effect that kicks in when women have greater access to jobs and the economic lives of our countries: Greater political stability. Fewer military conflicts. More food. More educational opportunity for children... By harnessing the economic potential of all women, we boost opportunity for all people.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Jobs, Children

  "Women Are Key to Global Economy". Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 2011 CEO Summit, www.thedailybeast.com. September 16, 2011.

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• The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Women, Race, Done

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.40, University of Toronto Press

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• [We need to push] for what we want, not just what we can get.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Needs, Want, Women's Rights

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• [The Republicans] all want to see women's rights eroded and for abortion to become illegal again.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Abortion, Want

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights.

  Warren Farrell

  Rights, Fusion, Males

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

  Will Rogers

  War, Flower, Men

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• The battle for women's rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone forever. I hate those strident tones we hear from some Women's Libbers.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hate, Rights, Forever

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• You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.

  Shere Hite

  Decree, Sexually, Women's Rights

  Shere Hite (2011). “The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality”, p.358, Seven Stories Press

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• one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.

  Susan Jacoby

  Past, Rights, Years

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• I support the rights of all people to practice their religious beliefs privately, but I oppose the idea of respecting religions. In truth, I have no respect for any religion. I believe religion is not compatible with human rights, women's rights, or freedom of expression.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Religious, Believe, Rights

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• I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that concern for the land, concern for the Earth, and this extension of community that we've been speaking of, is not marginal - in the same way that women's rights are not marginal, in the same way that rights for children are not marginal. There is no separation between the health of human beings and the health of the land. It is all part of a compassionate view of the world.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Children, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

  Major Owens

  Rights, Two, People

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• I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Powerful, Men, Rights

  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.117

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• Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr., were. Not many Americans have even heard of Alice Paul, Howard W. Smith, and Martha Griffiths. But they played almost as big a role in the history of women’s rights as Marshall and King played in the history of civil rights for African-Americans. They gave women the handle to the door to economic opportunity, and nearly all the gains women have made in that sphere since the nineteen-sixties were made because of what they did.

  Louis Menand

  Kings, Past, Opportunity

  "The Sex Amendment". www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2014.

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• It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.

  Ida Tarbell

  Women, Equality, Justice

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