Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

I tell you that men will always respect women when they compel it by their actions; and if women today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation the men would be compelled to grant it. The women of the country have the power in their hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

Equality for women is progress for all.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

Now that women are persons, what's ahead?

The role of women is not to be circumscribed.

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

While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.

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

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.

I pray that in the future, no one knows the meaning of women empowerment because we don't need these words.

We've always been for women, and we always will be for women. How we express that will be fluid over time as generations move forward.

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

I would love for people to know that the label 'feminist' is something that everyone should wear proudly, because it just means that you support women.

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

My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

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

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.

Our women have minds too. Let them show their faces to the world, and see it with their eyes…Don’t be afraid. Change is essential, so much so that, if need be, we are prepared to sacrifice lives for its sake.