Munira Mirza Quotes

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

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.

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.

It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who risked so much to win basic human rights.

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

As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.

I appreciate the positivity of those 'year of the woman' articles - it's good to get that energy out there - but at the same time, in Hollywood it's not happening yet.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

The issue [abortion] has come to symbolize what role women are going to play in American society. It's about power as much as anything else.

In no sense of the word am I in sympathy with women’s suffrage ….I have no vote and I’ve raised hell all over this country.

I not only advocate it now, but have advocated it earnestly for the last fifty years. As to the militant suffragettes, I have noted that many women believe in militant methods. You might advocate one way of securing the rights and I might advocate another, they both might help to bring about the result desired. To win freedom always involves hard fighting. I believe in women doing what they deem necessary to secure their rights.

We in the West would be wrong to prolong the pain of that transition unnecessarily, by elevating cultures full of bigotry and hatred towards women to the stature of respectable alternative ways of life.

Now that Arab women are pouring into the streets by the million, men discover with dismay that they, not women, were the captives of the harem dream.

Shakespeare was writing about his time, and it was a time when women were beginning to demand a voice, demand a say in their lives for one reason or another, mainly to do with the economics of the time.

I had a mother who got involved in grassroot politics when I was growing up. I watched her have agency and become political in a very male-dominated world.

We need to achieve a change in the media and in the way women are pressured to conform to a narrow image of beauty - it's a lofty ambition but it's important to make a start.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

I do believe that men and women are different, and that should be celebrated, but at the same time, I think there's a lot of things girls can do, and do equally, as well. Whether it's fighting for equal pay or just to be treated with respect, it's something I think is really important.

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked. I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of projects.

The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it.