Patricia Ireland Quotes

I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.

There are real consequences when women speak out. It's really dangerous, and it takes real courage. We are still speaking out against a white male majority. Forget the glass ceiling. We haven't even broken the glass floor!

As a woman in Saudi Arabia, you have one of two options. You either lose your mind - which at first happened to me because I fell into a deep depression - or you become a feminist.

I want more people to speak up about issues, like equal pay.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions.

Much of my adult life has been spent fighting for equal opportunity, and the idea that I would support limiting opportunity for any segment of society, particularly women, is antithetical to who I am and what I have done.

Deeds Not Words

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.

I got personal satisfaction from making trouble for high-placed sexists and helping less lucky women fight the establishment

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.

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

I'm someone who is inspired by people who've spoken out about different racial and gender issues.

I was functioning in a time when people were struggling, and they knew they had to struggle, and I was a part of that struggle. It wasn't just women.

I'm just about social justice. Amen to women like me!

My equality rants have been out there so much that people must be getting sick of it, and frankly, so am I, but if a writer wants to do another story about it, then go for it, because the cause is a good one.

I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years.

Feminists are asking the practical questions about how you want to live your life.

I've been personally attacked for respectfully expressing my take on women's empowerment.