Alice Walker Quotes

I believe 2016 is the Year of the Woman and now more than ever, it is our time to accomplish anything and everything.

The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.

Women hold up the other half of the sky.

This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

A woman can be in charge!

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.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the creed of authority in every field; the solidarity of mankind and the cause of peace against the patriotism of militarism; social reform against the existing relations of society.

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

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

According to my mother, my wife and my daughter, this world would be a lot better off with women running things.

To-day is holden at Worcester [MA] the "Woman's Convention." I think that as long as they have not equal rights of property and right of voting they are not on the right footing.

The creation of a peaceful and sustainable world civilization will be impossible without the full participation of women in every arena of human activity.36 While this proposition is increasingly supported, there is a marked difference between intellectual acceptance and its implementation.

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of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with the feminist ideal of education accepted in home and school, and with all special barriers removed in every field of human activity, there is no reason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.

We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, the majority of whom are men, making decisions for women.

Ultimate Goal: A world where women run half our countries and companies and half our homes.

Female empowerment is always something that I've felt. It's not about just being a model; it's about women in general.

We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.

I believe in women having a voice, being empowered, speaking up, and having ideas.

Obviously, there needs to be parity. I think as more women get to the top, we need to make sure that is the case. It is our responsibility.