Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.

If we're not protecting our women and we're not protecting our girls and we're not protecting the most vulnerable people in this society, who are we as a country?

We have to address the safety of women, and that is of utmost importance right now. I would love to work only with people with ethics and the right moral conduct.

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

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves.

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

A lot of the time, the way it's portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

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.

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

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.

In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.