438 Quotes About Women-s-rights

There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.

Uh.. you'er Sophie?" Mrianda ventured"That's me""How old areyou?"Sophie rolled ker wide brown eyes, "Ahunderd and forty-eight" she relied. "I got to live back when women coulden't vote, isn't that awesome?

Women who accuse men, particularly powerful men, of harassment are often confronted with the reality of the men’s sense that they are more important than women, as a group.

I hear myself saying these words: What this movement is about is options. I say it to friends who are frustrated, or housebound, or guilty, or child-laden, and what I'm really thinking is, If you really got it together, the option you would choose is mine.

After listening to Rick Santorum, I'm now for late-term abortions (say up to age 53).

You can't really protect women or men from their choices, so let themhave their own lives and trust the process. Given the history ofsociety's efforts to control women's sexuality and reproduction, thisremained a revolutionary idea. No wonder it disturbed and frightenedsome people so deeply.

It is time to renew the battle for reproductive rights. We have been outmaneuvered, outspent, outpostured, and outvoted by a group of single-issue activists. It has taken them nearly two decades to turn back the principles of Roe. Let's make sure it takes us a shorter time to replace protection for reproductive choice.

Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size.

As with Randall Terry and other anti-abortion leaders, women simplydid not figure into [Roeder's] equations. If all the abortionproviders were dead, the problem would be solved, and he'd never haveto think about those who sought to end their pregnancies throughillegal or dangerous means.