Mira Sorvino Quotes

I do wear a lot of hats, and sometimes people get confused with all that I do, but one thing that I am extraordinarily passionate about is furthering women's rights. I think it's something that's incredibly important, not just for girls everywhere but also boys to get involved in.

Like probably a lot of people, I came away from watching films like 'Miss Representation' and 'Half the Sky' with the realization that the battle for women's rights is not over, especially not globally, and that the moral imperative of our century is to achieve full rights for everyone regardless of gender.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

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

I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

Women's rights are human rights.

Those of us focused on issues related to social justice and equality are grateful for the significant steps President Obama has made to advance women's equality and status all over the world.

We must develop a truly global roadmap to eradicate all forms of discrimination still suffered by women.

I believe that women should be treated just like men.

I mean that I consider myself a feminist. I think anybody who thinks women and men should be treated equally is a feminist, whether or not they know it.

Women should have equal rights to men, every day.

I support women. I think we should be treated equal, all of that stuff.

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

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.

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

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.

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.

If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, it is that human rights are women's rights — and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely — and the right to be heard.

I care deeply about women's rights. I have been an outspoken advocate for them for many years and as secretary of state I carried that message around the world because empowering women, providing for women's rights, their full participation in society, politics, the economy is not only a matter of individuals being able to chart their own futures. It's good for democracy and it's good for peace and prosperity.

Gender equality must become a lived reality.