Gloria Allred Quotes

You know, I hear all these things about women's rights.

Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.

society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

It is impossible to realize our goals while discriminating against half the human race. As study after study has taught us, there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

As Indians, we take great pride in the fact that we are a progressive nation. We are proud of our democracy, our secular values as well as our entrepreneurial spirit. We are appalled by the harsh laws that govern women's lives in Taliban-dominated lands. Yet we turn a blind eye to the injustices that our own society continues to heap upon women.

Women are capable of accomplishing just as much as men are but aren't always given the same attention and opportunity.

The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world's economic, political, and environmental problems.

We need to put an end to discrimination against women, and the power to bring about this change lies in our hands.

Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world.

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

Obama said, 'Now let me be clear, issues of women's equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam.' No, he said, 'the struggle for women's equality continues in many aspects of American life.' So on one hand, 12-year-old girls are stoned to death for the crime of being raped in Muslim countries. But on the other hand, we still don't have enough female firefighters here in America.

It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.

Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.

I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.

A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.

Feminism and issues surrounding being female in the world, always, but particularly right now at this complicated cultural moment. It's a huge part of what's important to me.

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

There is tremendous inequity in Hollywood and politics, and I would say globally it's challenging to be a woman and succeed.

The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.

... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why, but I see women being put back in their place. And I hate it. We're losing all we worked so hard for.