Sally Ride Quotes

I think feminism is taking off. It's just not visible in the way that we would like it to be.

Women's progress has been a collective effort.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

I have never been ashamed of calling myself a feminist, and I believe passionately in women's rights.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

Women are coming into their own and breaking down so many boundaries.

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.

... it is the right and duty of every woman to employ the power of organization and agitation in order to gain those advantages which are given to the one sex and unjustly withheld from the other.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!

Women, wake up; the tocsin of reason sounds throughout the universe; recognize your rights.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.

There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.