Ginny Brown-Waite Quotes

Sisters, I ain't clear what you be after. If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

Women's rights are nothing but a part of the bigger picture, which is human rights. Women are trusted with the lives of their kids, even serve as teachers and doctors, but they aren't trusted with their own lives.

The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I'm very passionate about injustice against women and there's too much of it in the world. In so many parts of the world, women are not regarded as worthy or equal to men. In parts of the world, women are bought and sold.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

The progress of man has never been impeded by preconceived ideas regarding his abilities, his proper interests, and his appropriate activities. Woman has always been so hampered.

I think in the United States we have a different standard for what equality means for women that isn't really that comparable to that in the Middle East.

I would like the world to know that Yemeni women are strong, and if empowered, they can achieve. The world needs to look beyond stereotypes and dress code. In our hearts, we are just human beings who want to live a dignified life. Is that too much to ask for?

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

I think that Saudi women are very powerful. And I think that Saudi men are the greatest support to Saudi women.

Women are born, living their lives, and dying without the justice which they have been waiting for since the time of the caveman.

Unless the woman is liberated, there is no freedom in Iraqi land.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

Women are not by nature inferior to men...

If “all men are born free,” how is it that all women are born slaves?

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment on become your superiors.