Isabella Ormston Ford Quotes

I believe that women and girls today have to partner in a powerful way with men - with their fathers, with their sons, with their brothers, with the plumbers, the road builders, the caregivers, the doctors, the lawyers, with our president and with all beings.

I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.

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.

I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.

My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.'

For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.

I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for changes still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves

The woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink. Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free.

According to my mother, my wife and my daughter, this world would be a lot better off with women running things.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I.

Women will take their places beside men as partners, unafraid, useful, successful, and free

My own adhesion to the Suffrage Cause was given largely because I saw that only through political equality may we hope to see established a true understanding and a happier relationship between the sexes.

The notion that the husband ought to have the headship or authority over his wife, is the root of all social evils… Husband and wife should be co-equal. In a happy marriage there is no question of ‘obedience’.

Of late I have felt, with increasing intensity, the injustice inflicted on women by our present laws. The Party is largely my own child and I cannot part from it lightly, or without pain; but at the same time I cannot sever myself from the principles I hold. If it is necessary for me to separate myself from what has been my life's work, I do so in order to remove the stigma resting upon our wives, mothers and sisters of being accounted unfit for citizenship

It was not seen that woman’s place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

In the early days of Islam, women were much more socially and politically active than they are today.

It was seldom suggested that women’s drudgery could be decreased in the meantime by the simple expedient of sharing it with men.

The emancipation of women will only be possible if the traditional world of men also changes.

One of the things I have always said about the man-woman relationship is that I don't want anybody to walk ahead of me, and I don't want anybody to walk behind me. I want a man who will walk along beside me. And that's how I feel about equal rights.

I look for a man who respects my womanhood and doesn't make me feel like I have to be a stereotype. Like a housewife.