Isak Dinesen Quotes

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

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.

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

Everyone who knows me knows my respect for women: equality and respect.

I pray that in the future, no one knows the meaning of women empowerment because we don't need these words.

I think we've been pushing for a lot of years and I do feel like women's lib was talked about a lot in the 70s and I certainly always felt that, you know, as a woman, I could do whatever the heck I wanted.

I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.

Women want to drive and they are taking actual steps towards that.

As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do, and I'm used to that. I'm used to not having my government tell me my life is going to be restricted because I'm female.

I think that's the great thing, ya' know, that women can do anything that they want now.

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.

I feel so lucky that I live in a society that lets women be. I think that's the one of the biggest fights to keep having, is to fight for women to have the right to live their life the way they want to live it.

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.

…if civilization is to advance at all in the future, it must be through the help of women, women freed of their political shackles, women with full power to work their will in society.

The role of women is not to be circumscribed.

It is quite time that we [women] had our own party, our own platform, and our own nominees. We shall never have equal rights until we take them.

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

… in an age when human rights are preached loudly from the rooftops, women had to be accepted as equals and allowed to think and act in their own interests and by their own efforts.

There's nothing wrong with women saying that we can be ambitious and that we can want the same things that men have traditionally wanted.

For me, as a feminist, as somebody who wants to lift up women - because I do; I come from a single mom who raised three boys on her own - I feel like, you close the door on women, you close the door on humanity.