438 Quotes About Women-s-rights

The social invisibility of women's experience is not "a failure of human communication." It is a socially arranged bias persisted in long after the information about women's experience is available (sometimes even publicly insisted upon).

Mr Reichman was brilliant and very good at what he did, but he was still a man, and men rarely knew what decisions a woman had or hadn't made.

I do not care for prejudice in any form. In my opinion, we women have been subjected to so much of it that I cannot see how anyone of my sex could fail to identify with those similarly oppressed.

I knew that I wouldn’t be able to apply for the ID card without his signature, but I went to the registry office anyway and sat there waiting, holding back my tears. I took an application form and the guardian consent form and returned to the car chastened. Abouya looked at me and said sarcastically, “Where’s the card?” It was a clear statement that he was still the master of my fate.

Still trying to figure out the dynamics of rights and responsibilities as a woman? How about striking out the word Woman and making it Human.

I am protecting women's rights, their human right to decide their futures for themselves, and to live their lives as they see fit.

Me vinieron a la mente todas las cosas que me habían molestado hasta ese momento, todas las veces que alguien me había hecho sentirme estúpida, paranoica, débil, asustada, mojigata o frígida; todas las veces que me habían dicho que era de armas tomar, irascible, bocazas, mandona, agresiva o simplemente rara; todas las veces que me he sentido culpable de algo sin motivo, todas las imbecilidades que me habían llegado a decir desde que tenía uso de razón sencillamente por el hecho de ser mujer.

..the expectations of Republican Motherhood – in which women’s obligations were the instilling of civic virtue in offspring and the moral maintenance of their husbands.

The God part is in your agency. The trust- the divine trust- is that you have an opportunity to participate in the population of the planet. And you have an opportunity not to participate.