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.

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

The word feminism has become synonymous with man-hating when in fact it has more to do with women than men.

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

Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa...

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.

This indignation builds up an accumulation of anger over the many ways I am being reminded by the system then and now of my inferiority. This gradual anger over one humiliation after another may be...

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

Using one’s beauty was the only way a smart girl could get by, at least that’s how it was back then, though even for a smart girl there were really only three professions. You could...

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation...

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were “supposed” to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe...

How did I make a living? I haven’t. I have eked out an existence.” – Ella Baker

Gender Quotes are social disease.

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 cell.”(America’s Medieval Women, Harper’s Magazine, August 1938)

No woman deserves to be disrespected; to be beaten up, to be called bitches or sluts. Assaulted or insulted. Even if she’s a hooker.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not...

If he hits you, then you leave,” but Jack had never hit her, not with his fists.

Clearly it’s not easy for women in modern society, no matter where they live. We still have to go the extra mile to prove that we are equal to men. we have to work longer...

His sisters — my aunts — did not go to school at all, just like millions of girls in my country. Education had been a great gift for him. He believed that lack of education...

Any place where women are not respected or provided enough opportunities to grow and develop, cannot be a progressive place.

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority...

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut...

Angelina, I think of you as my friend, the dearest of friends, and it tortures me to go against you, but now is the time to stand with the slave. The time will come for...

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.

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable...

When all you know is pain you don’t know that that is not normal. It is not a woman’s lot to suffer, even if we’ve been raised that way.It is not OK to miss a...

It’s not being a woman I mind so much,” she said slowly. “‘Tis the way men seem to always order my life.” She leaned earnestly toward him. “Your hand, Papa, has wielded a sword and...

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

Why do we go to all this trouble’ Parker asked. ‘Men don’t notice anyway.”Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move....

She was a spiky teenager rebelling against the soul-suck mirror reflected back at her in her mother’s blank stare, her question mark of a spine. Determined to beat the odds, she completed high school with...

Julia supposed that there was also a difference in perspective: ‘The practical level was another level down [in 1960s social movements] and not so interesting. I don’t know much about organizing, but I feel as...

Damsels were women unable to do anything more complicated than get themselves captured by overgrown lizards with virgin fetishes.

The strongest drug for a human being is another human being!

He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and to her God. He has endeavored in...

Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.

One needn’t identify as a feminist to participate in the redemptive movement of God for women in the world, The gospel is more than enough. Of course it is! But as long as I know...

Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size.

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

The emergency of women is the emergency of the world.

While significant strides have been made in the pursuit of life expectancy, healthcare, educational opportunities, and constitutional protections for women, the Supreme Court, in particular, still wrestles with their status, as evidenced by their problems...

Six men control almost all the media in the United States–book publishing, magazines, television, movie studios, newspapers, and radio. They are not friendly toward feminism, which has almost disappeared from the surface of our society....

Every single man who is too stupid enough to realize how beautiful is God’s creation through WOMEN and continuously lay his hand on them, he is not man enough to be classified with the rest...

When female stories are muted, we are teaching our kids that their dignity is second class and the historical accounts of their lives [are] less relevant. This lowered value carries over when women face sexual...

Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can’t take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can’t take care of anything. It should not be seen as...

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

When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.