Maisie Williams Quotes

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

In the State of Israel, there are still women who suffer mental and physical violence just because they are women. Many people suffer mental and physical violence, but there is a certain section of the population that harasses women because they are women, and we must fight this vigorously. Anyone who infringes on the rights of women or their freedom, or who works to discriminate against women, works against the principles and ideals of the State of Israel.

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

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

Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me. But they do. It doesn’t matter what country they’re in or what religion they claim. They want to control women.

'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it's all about equality, but at the end of the day, it's not equal.

The world remains a very hostile place for women in many corners of the globe. As such, we should all strive to battle such injustices wherever these might occur.

I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years.

For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

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 hate the victimization of women, always.

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times. I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.