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Womens Rights Quotes

The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
- Shana Alexander

In my opinion, the only good spider is a dead spider, and women's rights aren't worth dick if they mean I can't ask a man to do my bug squashing.
- Janet Evanovich

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
- Susan B Anthony

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.
- Charlotte Bunch

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.
- Hillary Clinton

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.
- Hillary Clinton

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women's rights was added by a senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and was said to be sure that if he stuck something about womens' rights into it, it would never pass. The bill passed anyway, though, much to the chagrin of a certain wiener from Virginia.
- Adam Selzer

Women's rights, that antediluvian topic.
- Virginia Woolf

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
- Patty Duke

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
- Margaret Thatcher

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
- Charles Fourier

In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.
- Paul Martin

It is very frightening to see a resurgence of the old mores, or lack thereof, regarding women's rights to their own bodies.
- Gwen Moore

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.
- Karen Morley

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.
- Toni Morrison

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
- Constance Baker Motley

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.
- Azar Nafisi

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
- Major R Owens

Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a right to keep the fruits of your labor....I, in a way, don't like to use those terms: gay rights, women's rights, minority rights, religious rights. There's only one type of right. It's the right to your liberty.
- Ron Paul

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.
- Martha Plimpton

I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.
- Jean Sasson

I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren.
- Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.
- Merlin Stone

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
- Queen Victoria

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.
- Clara Zetkin

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