Michelle Obama Quotes

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.

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.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

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.

Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.

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.

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

Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

Differences between male and female should not serve as a subterfuge for denying the human and civil rights that belong to us all … Women, like their male counterparts, should be judged by the law as individuals, not as a class of inferior beings.

For a woman emancipation means corruption.

Afghanistan is doomed if women are barred once again from public life.

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

Some people ask, 'Why the word 'feminist'? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?' Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general - but to choose to use the vague expression 'human rights' is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender.

In Saudi society, women are extremely respected. I never had an issue with that at all.

These are old issues. Female power, misogyny, the treatment of women, how you make meaning in the world. And these are all issues that I've been thinking about and writing about for a very long time.

I'm an ardent feminist.

Women are capable of accomplishing just as much as men are but aren't always given the same attention and opportunity.

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

As a woman, my stance is that I'm a fighter, and in no way will I support any kind of injustice against women in our society.

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

My mother was a businesswoman; my grandmother was a businesswoman - it never occurred to me that life might be harder because you're a woman. It wasn't until later and I had a bigger sense of the world that I realised that.

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.

Women are allowed to exist in this very narrow lane, but as soon as you step out of that lane, people want to stone you.

I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.