438 Quotes About Women-s-rights

If women die in childbed, that does no harm. It is what they were made for.

...when 'empowering women' becomes 'overpowering women' not only is it the polar opposite of feminism; it is the opposite of ‘right.’ Empowering women begins by respecting their individual choices.

Jo, vi vil gaa. Vi vil gaa alligevel. Vi maa gaa. De Kvinder, som altid sidder i sine Kareter, keder sig tildøde. De Tider er forbi, da Kvinden var for Manden kun en Luksusgjenstand, halvt et kostbart Legetøi, halvt en Gudinde, der skulde tilbedes. De har selv stødt os ned paa Handlingens Skueplads, hvor vi maa arbeide, erhverve, stride og tumle os, med ett Ord: vi maa gaa.

At first, feminists were assumed to be only discontented suburban housewives; then a small bunch of women's "libbers", bra burners, and radicals; then women on welfare; then briefcase carrying imitations of male executives; then unfulfilled women who forgot to have children; then women voters...that really could decide elections. That last was too dangerous, so suddenly we were told we were in a "postfeminist" age...

I live in a man’s world, but every man is born of us. Every man draws life from our womb. Some of them may regard us as less than starving cattle, but they would be no more than semen on the ground if we were so insignificant.

I would waste thirty minutes a day, standing in front of a mirror that I never had any inclination to really pay proper attention to. And even after I made myself up for nothing, I was still derided and abused for it. It was rather like putting a dress on a bear and pretending it was beautiful.

Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets, for child care, for social welfare, for rape crisis centres, women's refuges, reforms in the law. If someone says, 'Oh, I'm not a feminist', I ask, 'Why? What's your problem?

With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book.

The meanest girl who dances and dresses becomes something higher when her children look up into her face and ask her questions. It is the only education we have and which they cannot take from us