Phoebe W. Couzins Quotes

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

Never, till woman stands side by side with man, his equal in the eye of the law as well as the Creator, will the high destiny of the race be accomplished.

The Equal Rights Amendment is a necessity of life…

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

… no civilization can be perfect until exact equality between man and woman is included.

A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.

I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015.

I believe men and women should be afforded the same opportunities.

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

An Act to Relieve the Legal Disabilities of Women

It would need more than the 19th Amendment to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation cannot take those differences into account.

We are not crusading for the rights of the women of New England or of old England but of the world.

With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with the feminist ideal of education accepted in home and school, and with all special barriers removed in every field of human activity, there is no reason why woman should not become almost a human thing.

Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense

Women today should have the same rights as men. And all citizens should have the right to speak their minds without fear of imprisonment.

My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.

Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls.

Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.

I mean that I consider myself a feminist. I think anybody who thinks women and men should be treated equally is a feminist, whether or not they know it.

We are in a world where men and women are on the same platform.