Malala Yousafzai Quotes

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

As the highest-ranking Republican woman in the U.S. House of Representatives and the mom of two daughters, I believe if we're serious as a nation about empowering every American to pursue his or her own dreams, then true cases of gender discrimination need to be confronted.

We want to believe that we live in a world where our daughters can do anything and be anything. And you'd think they could - they outnumber boys in college, graduate school, and the work force.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.

From the first moment a woman dared to speak that hope - dared to believe that the American Dream was meant for her too - ordinary women have taken on extraordinary odds to give their daughters the chance for something else; for a life more equal, more free, and filled with more opportunity than they ever had. In so many ways we have succeeded, but in so many areas we have much work left to do.

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world.

Women’s rights are human rights.

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

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 don't feel that I've faced discrimination. I've had every chance to succeed and more, and I think that's what all women should have.

There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality.

The more the women beat the men hopefully that will bring up more opportunities for us and then the possibilities are endless as to what can happen.

We need to put an end to discrimination against women, and the power to bring about this change lies in our hands.

For me, a feminist is a self-empowered woman who strives to move things forward for not only women but also men in terms of freedom and liberation.

Great women, in partnership with great men, will continue to take us forward.

Our Matru Shakti is our pride. Women empowerment is very crucial to our development.