Patricia Arquette Quotes

My mom worked tirelessly on getting equal rights for women.

Women have not had their rights come easily.

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves.

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

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

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.

If women are not accorded equal place in the leadership of the Catholic Church and the other great world religions, they will always be treated as inferiors in earthly matters as well.

To protect women in times of war, we must first make sure women receive equal rights in times of peace.

It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.

We respect women and don't insult them by saying all they care about is reproductive rights. All issues are women's issues.

Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped.

I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.

Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women's movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.

I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?

No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America.

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

Women should have the same rights and respect and paychecks and everything, you know, they're human beings.

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.