Betty Ford Quotes

An Act to Relieve the Legal Disabilities of Women

I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.

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

Women should have equal rights to men, every day.

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

I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

My mom worked tirelessly on getting equal rights for women.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Women must enjoy equal rights with men. The remaining shackles that hamper their freedom must be removed so that they can participate constructively and profoundly in shaping the life of the country.

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

Women shall have the same rights and privileges under the law as men in the exercise of suffrage ... and in all other respects.

Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

I thought that we would wake up this morning and have the same rights as our husbands, grandsons and garbage men—but we are still begging to be let into our country's Constitution.

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.

We [women] seek equality. We don't seek sameness.

Once women got the right to vote, the kind of relaxed about everything. It was not until after World War II that women discovered that they did not have equal opportunity in the workplace.... The result was almost a revolution.

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man.

… personal independence and equal human rights can never be forfeited, except for crime; that marriage should be an equal and permanent partnership, and so recognized by law; that until it is so recognized, married partners should provide against the radical injustice of present laws, by every means in their power...

I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

… in an age when human rights are preached loudly from the rooftops, women had to be accepted as equals and allowed to think and act in their own interests and by their own efforts.

… no civilization can be perfect until exact equality between man and woman is included.

Never, till woman stands side by side with man, his equal in the eye of the law as well as the Creator, will the high destiny of the race be accomplished.