Sojourner Truth Quotes

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

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

Every now and then I am reminded that even though the need for being a feminist is gradually disappearing in this country, we haven't quite reached the millennium.

I'm definitely a feminist.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

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

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

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

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.

Women are still second-class citizens.

During the ages, no rebellion has been of like importance with that of Woman against the tyranny of Church and State; none has had its far reaching effects.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

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is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.

I not only advocate it now, but have advocated it earnestly for the last fifty years. As to the militant suffragettes, I have noted that many women believe in militant methods. You might advocate one way of securing the rights and I might advocate another, they both might help to bring about the result desired. To win freedom always involves hard fighting. I believe in women doing what they deem necessary to secure their rights.

Every movement takes a century to make its mark. The women’s movement is only 40 some years old.

I'm an independent woman and a feminist.

People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

I still consider myself a feminist.

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.

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

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

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.