Women Right Quotes:

What I've learned is you treat women right.

- Tyler Perry

source: "Meet America's first black movie mogul" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2009.

topic: I've Learned, Treats, Women Right

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Block, Ghetto, Men, Women Right, Cotton Fields

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership, Empowering Women, Improve Self Esteem

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Inspiring, Strong Women, Sex, Female Empowerment, Women Equality

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

- Margaret Fuller

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Education, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge Learning

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

- Margaret Thatcher

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Powerful, Empowering Women, Powerful Women

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

- Alice Walker

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Maintaining Peace, Personal Power

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States. Executive Office of the President (1995). “Remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton: United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, September 5-6, 1995, China”

topic: Rights, Politics, Speak, Women's Rights, Women In Politics

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

- Abigail Adams

source: Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

topic: Women, Memorable, Law, Women's Suffrage, Determined Woman

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

- Ayn Rand

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Empowering Women, Try Again

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

- Rebecca West

topic: Girly, Peace, Time, Radical Feminism, Women Equality

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: "The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft" by Bee Rowlatt, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2015.

topic: Women, Men, Wish, Women Equality, Equal Rights

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

- Shirley Chisholm

topic: Girl, Equality, Emotional, Female Empowerment, Women Equality

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Witty, Strong Women, Independent, Indian Patriotic, Women's Suffrage

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

- Ruth Gordon

topic: Inspirational, Women, Use, I Am Strong, Powerful Women

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

- Bella Abzug

source: Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

topic: Jobs, Women, Memorable, Women's Suffrage, Women Equality

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Courage, Peace, Integrity, Social Reform, Women's Suffrage

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Strong Women, Equality, White, Women Equality, Strong Independent Women

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

- Maya Angelou

topic: Veterans Day, Women, Hero, Fireman, Women Equality

Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings

- Cheris Kramarae

topic: Bad Ass, Feminism, Radical, Radical Feminism, Inspirational Feminist

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

- Lois Wyse

source: "The Rules According to Dee Dee Myers". Interview With Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, content.time.com. February 29, 2008.

topic: Inspirational, Sorry, Women, Women Equality, Women's Rights

When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Generations, Benefits, Succeed, Women Right

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

- Kofi Annan

source: Twitter post from May 11, 2016

topic: Inspiring, Empowerment, Tools, Men Women, Woman Leader

Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.

- Bella Abzug

topic: Race, Age, Safe, Women's Rights, Women Right

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: People, Done, Want, Independent Person, Powerful Women

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Inspirational, Sad, Women, Women's Suffrage, International Women's Day

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

- Daniel Defoe

topic: Men, Blood, Tyrants, Women's Suffrage, Women Equality

Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government.

- Carrie Chapman Catt

topic: Sex, Voice, Race, Women's Suffrage, Women's Rights

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

- Jane Austen

topic: Women, Hate, Independent, Inspirational Feminist, International Women's Day

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Motivational, Women, Law, Women's Suffrage, Women Equality

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

- Madeleine Albright

source: "Madeleine Albright: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Empowering Women, Women Equality

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Women, International Women's Day, Sexy Women

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

topic: Family, Inspiring, Women, Women Equality, Women's Rights

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

- Clare Boothe Luce

topic: Inspirational, Women, Bad Ass, Female Empowerment, Strong Independent

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

- Golda Meir

topic: Funny, Work, Memorable, International Women's Day, Womans Day

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

- Alice Paul

source: "Deeds Not Words" by Bobbie Brinegar, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2016.

topic: Women, Equality, Rights, Equality For All, Equal Rights

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

- Pat Robertson

source: "Robertson Letter Attacks Feminists". www.nytimes.com. 1992.

topic: Husband, Children, Women, Socialist Party, Man Hating

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Inspiring, Women, Equality, Social Equality, Social Groups

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

- Marlo Thomas

topic: Women, Equality, Feminist, Women Equality, Women's Rights

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)

topic: Beauty, Women, Feminist, Infancy Is, Women Right

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

- Abigail Adams

source: The History of the Kentish Petition addenda, l. 11 (1712 - 1713) See Abigail Adams 1

topic: Wedding, Husband, Women, Women's Suffrage, Women Right

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

- Julia Ward Howe

topic: Feminist, Doubt, Study, Women's Rights, Women Right

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Inspiring, Daughter, Strong Women, Female Empowerment, Strong Independent

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2003). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: National protection for national citizens, 1873 to 1880”, p.491, Rutgers University Press

topic: Girl, Witty, Women, Women Equality, Women Right

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

- Joan Baez

topic: Men, Giving, Feminist, Softness, Men Women

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

- Mary Ritter Beard

source: Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.185, Feminist Press at CUNY

topic: Men, Historical, Mind, Subjection, Women's Rights

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

- Betty Friedan

source: BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

topic: Women, Creative, Way, Mystique, Creative Work