Quotes on Womens Rights

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Full democracy requires the full participation of women. Your voices are vital. The word 'vital' means necessary for life. A democracy, to be fully alive, must include all its citizens.

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

You ask whether a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this, there can be but one answer. If she does the same quantity and quality of work under the same conditions as a man, simple justice requires that she should be paid the same. wages. To deny her this is to deny her justice.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

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

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

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

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.