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Quotes about women-s-rights

Women’s rights represent a fundamental pillar of equality and justice, embodying the relentless pursuit of gender parity across all facets of life. This topic encompasses a broad spectrum of issues, from the right to vote and access to education, to equal pay and reproductive rights. At its core, women’s rights are about empowering half of the world’s population to live freely and fully, without discrimination or oppression. People are drawn to quotes about women’s rights because they encapsulate the strength, resilience, and courage that have fueled the movement for generations. These quotes serve as powerful reminders of the progress made and the challenges that remain, inspiring individuals to continue advocating for change. They resonate deeply because they speak to universal themes of justice, dignity, and the unyielding spirit of those who have fought—and continue to fight—for equality. In a world where the struggle for women’s rights is ongoing, these quotes offer both reflection and motivation, encouraging us to envision a future where gender equality is not just an aspiration, but a reality.

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Be careful if you make a women cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man’s ribs. Not from his feet to be walked on, not from his head to be superior, but from his side to be equal, under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved.
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Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated.
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The world will change when women reclaim their power as the sane, nurturing hands of love, which are ever reaching to cultivate a world of beauty, safety and harmony.
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Women were born to be treasured.
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Perhaps you'll apprentice to a healer when you're older," Grete suggested. "I'd say you have the gift for it."Hen reddened, then seemed suddenly fascinated with a speck on her shoe. "Be nice to have a gift for something," she said after a moment. "But they don't let girls apprentice, now, do they?"Grete harrumphed. "A bunch of fools, the lot who came up with that system. You lose half the world's brainpower that way.
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However, he did say that a state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
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The stewards, and then the bailiffs, and then finally the lawyers meet. They wrangle, they agree, and we are to be married in June. It is no little decision for me - for the first time in my life I have my own lands in my own hands as a widow; once I become a wife everything becomes Lord Stanley's property. I have to struggle to reserve what I can from the law that rules that a wife has no rights, and I keep what I can, but I know that I am choosing my master.
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I defend the authority of women and explore its meaning for them rather than assume they need to be more accommodating or sensitive.
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A fundamental error that I have noticed within a lot of independent women, is that by default, they must succeed. If not, their self-reflection in stagnation will overcome them. In striving to succeed immediately, they have failed successfully, and have fallen into the ocean of persistence and fluctuation. But it's not all in vain, for hope is a returning daydream. Unknown to them, their opposite is merely sleeping with time, awaiting the impending song of daybreak's bell.
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...religions all have the same timeline...First the people feel the need to worship something. The sun or the giant corn of ear. That's the first thing. Then the guys say okay, now that we've got the giant corn thing going, how can we use it to oppress women?
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