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.

The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as that people of all races and creeds have equal rights,...

As the many male victims of rape in the regime’s disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not content to degrade women only.

This is when the pill became widely known as The Pill, perhaps the only product in American history so powerful that it needed no name. Women went to their doctors and said they wanted it....

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

Women in my country take their rights for granted and completely dissociate themselves from the women’s rights movement and feminism. But I think anything’s possible. If I don’t help the women in Afghanistan, they won’t...

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

We stand hand-clasped, our faces quite blank, as if this were not a nightmare that tells me, as clearly as if it were written in letters of fire, what ending a girl may expect if...

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.

Women need to assert their rights in the bedroom too – many women have done so in the workplace; many women have done so in house chores and parenting, but women’s rights are sorely lacking...

With the way a lot of men function, I’d say “single” womyn are a threat to society. In fact, I’d go as single womyn are a threat to the system. As a womyn, if you...

You self-proclaimed “MILF” hunters have it all wrong — we aren’t the prey, YOU are. You are but a Service Male – a SMILF!

Consent to petting isn’t consent to penetration.

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

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.