438 Quotes About Women-s-rights
- Author Katherine Boo
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She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain.
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- Author Imam Shah
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No woman deserves to be disrespected; to be beaten up, to be called bitches or sluts. Assaulted or insulted. Even if she's a hooker.
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- Author Angela Carter
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In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force
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- Author Susan Holloway Scott
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She didn't answer, and in that moment I realized that she felt the same as I. The men we loved would determine our destinies along with their own, no matter how we might wish otherwise.We walked the rest of the way arm in arm, our heads bowed, in sisterly agreement. We said nothing more, nor did we need to.I, Eliza Hamilton
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- Author Nicoleta Roman
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Faptul ca femeia era incontinuu supravegheata de toti si judecata pentru o privire,pentru o vorba sau pentru o fapta este dovedit de documente de arhiva, in care este laudata sau, dimpotriva, blamata, marginalizata sau chiar adusa in fata justitiei.
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- Author Manal al-Sharif
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So you’re the infamous Manal al-Sharif,” he said, eyeing me from behind his desk. “Aren’t you ashamed of what you did?”“Is driving a car something shameful?” I answered back.
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- Author Susan Sarandon
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Pay equality is not going to happen because we scream and yell about it, it's going to happen when we start demanding it."(On Beauty: Susan Sarandon, Vogue, January 8, 2016)
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- Author Laura Kaplan
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Julia supposed that there was also a difference in perspective: 'The practical level was another level down [in 1960s social movements] and not so interesting. I don't know much about organizing, but I feel as though, if the reality of the situation doesn't change people's heads, then nothing's going to change their heads. Marches and those things are not the work of it. The work of it is whatever the work is.
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- Author Martha Lemasters
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I notice perfume smells on his shirts and even later hours. I suspect he's having an affair but really don't care.
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