Mahnaz Afkhami Quotes

Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress.

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

Equality for women is progress for all.

The women's movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we'd break open the doors that were closed to women, and with the other part, we'd walk through, transforming society for men and women. Turns out it was a lot easier to open the doors.

Equality for women is progress for all.

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

The creation of a peaceful and sustainable world civilization will be impossible without the full participation of women in every arena of human activity.36 While this proposition is increasingly supported, there is a marked difference between intellectual acceptance and its implementation.

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

Feminism is the best movement that's happened in the 21st century, and it benefits everyone.

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of the Woman. Then from 1975 to 1985 they gave us a decade, the Decade of the Woman. I said at the time, who knows, if we behave they may let us into the whole thing. Well, we didn't behave and here we are.

I care deeply about women's rights. I have been an outspoken advocate for them for many years and as secretary of state I carried that message around the world because empowering women, providing for women's rights, their full participation in society, politics, the economy is not only a matter of individuals being able to chart their own futures. It's good for democracy and it's good for peace and prosperity.

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.

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

Now that women are persons, what's ahead?

Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

We've always been for women, and we always will be for women. How we express that will be fluid over time as generations move forward.

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.