Women S Rights Quotes
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.
We come by aurora, with a heavy and sovereign tread, with the might of matriarchs to furnish our shoulders, with the apricity of light to crown our heads
Anyone could see that this woman is living a nightmare. Except that she goes through her daily life wide awake, knowing that she could make a mistake at any moment.
I got a text from my husband. “Manal, you are divorced, ” it read. “Your papers are in the court of Khobar.” I was divorced in my absence, just as I had been married.
As the prevailing voices in the public spotlight are predominantly men, stepping into the spotlight with the truth of who you are as a woman is political change.
They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.
- You see a man and you just play with him, because you know you can.- I play with women too. I believe in equal rights, she said, looking in the mirror.
An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison
How beautiful it is to live in a world with no walls.
We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very constraints that they hadimposed upon us.
The part of you that's like Gob is the part that makes a choice. That says, I choose to. or, I choose not to. That's what's sacred.
How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker
A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest
If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live?
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 strong and human with a mouth that works like a man’s and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to be heard.
Pay equality is not going to happen because we scream and yell about it, it's going to happen when we start demandin
I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.
she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.
Also the fact that he's a guy. A girl screws around like Lotto and she's like diseased. Untouchable. But a guy can stick it to a million places and everyone just thinks he's doing what boys do.
a feminist is just someone who recognizes power structures that keep people from having the fullest life they can.
Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that’s the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.
Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size.
I believe beauty is action. If my action can bring smiles in the innocent faces of people then my act is beautiful.
Dancing falls into the same category as poetry for a woman – it equals dreaming, which may inspire thoughts about such banned topics as love and desire.
So now you are a woman. Do you have the least idea of what that means?It means that I am now fit to be wedded and bedded (...) and to bear children for the king.
When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.
Any place where women are not respected or provided enough opportunities to grow and develop, cannot be a progressive place.
Do you really think that laws made by men and a justice system maintained by men will ever be fair in cases of rape? Nora Hawks from One Bullet Beyond Justice
Women don't like to be told what to do. They like to be the ones telling us what to do. You want her to do something, you're gonna have to go about it a different way.
Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out.
The part of you that's like God is the part that makes a choice. That says, I choose to. Or, I choose not to. That's what's sacred.
I notice perfume smells on his shirts and even later hours. I suspect he's having an affair but really don't care.
Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87
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.
The word feminism has become synonymous with man-hating when in fact it has more to do with women than men.
When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.
My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.
Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...
Women’s status in society has become the standard by which humanity’s progress toward civility and peace can be measured.”-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images