Jacky Rosen Quotes

Unfortunately, as obsessed as I am with all of those Grimm's slash Disney princesses, I do think women have evolved socially in so many ways.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.

Women's progress has been a collective effort.

If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.

If we want to get beyond this whole I'm-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging women to get engineering degrees in college.

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

The freedom movement transformed the status of women. Women fought along with men as comrades. In the process, the shackles that had bound them fell away.

'The Feminine Mystique' goads me to gratitude that, thanks to forerunners like Betty Friedan, I've had the opportunity to pursue a career.

I think people look back at the '90s as a golden era of female empowerment.

Feminism has always been a theme that I'm very interested in.

I am part of a movement that loves women into conversation and conversion. I am part of the pro-woman movement.

I believe the era of the militant lady is back.

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

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.

Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.

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.

Women are the real architects of society.

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.