Sarah Moore Grimke Quotes

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

In every country women were dramatically empowered to fill the places of millions of absent men.

I'm so excited by women right now, not just in America but globally. Women really are coming into their own. We're standing on the shoulders of forty years of hard and messy work.

I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.

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.

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

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.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.

It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

What I like about the American woman is she usually has a lot of dynamism. In the U.S., women have a tendency to go forward, to be more exaggerated than in Europe. Many times the rough ideas come from the States, then they are refined in Europe. The American women and the French women are still the best-dressed.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

Our women have minds too. Let them show their faces to the world, and see it with their eyes…Don’t be afraid. Change is essential, so much so that, if need be, we are prepared to sacrifice lives for its sake.

Now that women are persons, what's ahead?