Women S Quotes

Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.

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.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.

As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.

Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.

Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

A woman's health is her capital.

I think women's bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

Honest to God, so International Women's Day, just like May Day and just like Earth Day, all have roots to Marxism and the Bolsheviks and the Soviets.

Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities

Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them.

[We need to push] for what we want, not just what we can get.

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.

The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.

The strength of women and women's rights around the world are especially important because that affects children and families. And the cascade effect is remarkable.

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.

While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been decidely beneficial.

China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?

I'm not a model - I have curves. I find things that accentuate my body, a woman's body, and I always wear things that I feel comfortable in.

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.

The Bible doesn't speak of "women's rights" in the social-political language we're used to hearing today. Still, that doesn't mean the Bible is silent on the subject.

Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.

You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.

It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.

It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.

Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress.

Women's health needs to be front and center - it often isn't, but it needs to be.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features.