Shana Alexander Quotes

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

An Act to Relieve the Legal Disabilities of Women

I think we've come a long way with women's rights, but we've got a long way to go.

Women are emerging as a major force for change. Countries that have invested in girls' education and removed legal barriers that prevent women from achieving their potential are now seeing the benefits.

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

While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

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

The personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings...would be a practical evil not only of the gravest but even of an intolerable character.

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.

Women have not had their rights come easily.

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

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

The great majority of their sex do not want the ballot, and that to force it upon them would not only be an injustice to women, but would lessen their influence for good.

In the criminal code we find no feminine pronouns, as "He," "His," "Him," we are arrested, tried and hung, but singularly enough, we are denied the highest privileges of citizens, because the pronouns "She," "Hers" and "Her," are not found in the constitutions. It is a pertinent question, if women can pay the penalties of their crimes as "He," why may they not enjoy the privileges of citizens as "He"?

All theories of chivalry and generosity and vicarious representation fall, before the fact that woman has been grossly wronged by man. That being the case, the only modest and honest thing for man to do is to say, "Henceforward have a voice in making your own laws." Till this is done, she has no sure safeguard, since otherwise the same men who made the old barbarous laws may at any time restore them.

… since the women started out on their crusade they have scored in every project they undertook against unjust laws. I would like to see them help make the laws and those who are to enforce them. I would like to see the whiplash in women's hands.

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

It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house.

Women's rights are human rights.

With each generation, women's ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn't mean everything is perfect or that our work is finished.

For me, feminism is a movement for which the end goal is to make itself no longer needed.