Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.

We need to put an end to discrimination against women, and the power to bring about this change lies in our hands.

The fact is, there is not now, nor has there ever been in the whole of history, a single country in the world where women have equality with men.

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

I think that in a country as successful as ours, we still have a long way to go in terms of parity for women, whether it’s equal pay in the workforce or a whole host of other issues.

Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.

society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.

It is impossible to realize our goals while discriminating against half the human race. As study after study has taught us, there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.

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

A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will he recognized as the legal equals of men.

Those of us focused on issues related to social justice and equality are grateful for the significant steps President Obama has made to advance women's equality and status all over the world.

The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world's economic, political, and environmental problems.

I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just not immune to that - which actually isn't a very controversial stance if you think about it.

I'm feminist in that I believe that there should be equality between men and women. I get deeply frustrated on a daily basis by the enormous gender divide in the U.S. literary world. But I don't know how to deal with it, so I don't tend to say much about it.

There's nothing bad about feminism. We have to help each other, because there's a lot of women in the world who are suffering because the fact is we're not equal. It's as plain as that. It's still a men's world. I don't know. We'll go on with it.

If you're not a feminist, you're part of the problem.

Why is there even a conversation about feminism?

the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.