Barbi Benton Quotes

I would chance saying globally there is a feeling that female empowerment has, at last, become a topic that is fashionable, and more power to that.

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

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

We demand that, in the strange new world that is arising alike upon the man and the woman, where nothing is as it was, and all things are assuming new shapes and new relations, that in this new world we also have our share of honored and socially useful human toil, our full half of the labor of the Children of Women. We demand nothing more than this, and we will take nothing less. That is our ‘Woman’s Right’.

This comic is meant to chronicle a great movement now under way—the growth in the power of women.

The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

I believe 'Lean In' has the power to change not only our outlook but also the world and that it will become a touchstone publication for a generation of women.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

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.

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

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the 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 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.

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

I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.

I'm 100 percent in support of women's rights, the right of a woman to make her own choice.

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

My mom worked tirelessly on getting equal rights for women.

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

Now that women are persons, what's ahead?