Kofi Annan Quotes

I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.

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

Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.

I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight very hard to do what they wanted to do in the world - that it wasn't an easy choice. But I think the most important part is that we all want the right to be taken seriously as human beings, and to use our talents without reservation, and that's still not possible for women.

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

Women's rights are human rights.

I'm an ardent feminist.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.

It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

Since the beginning of time, women have had to fight for what they deserve. I'm proud to be a part of a wave of strong women on TV!

I am the dictionary definition of feminist in that I believe women are equal to men. People sometimes use the word for different meanings and it is important to understand that feminism at its core is really is just believing that everyone is equal and should have the same rights. We are all beautiful women, we are still in the fight for equal pay, and we don't need to fight each other.

As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.

I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

You know, I hear all these things about women's rights.

Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.