Carre Otis Quotes

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

Forever behind a woman is the mediaeval English common law which places upon her the stigma of inferiority and bondage

I believe the decree should be repealed. It is extremely humiliating for women to be treated as criminals. The decree only gives men more legal weapons to use against women in case of marital problems.

When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

Men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it.

Our ancestors saw fit that females, by reason of levity of disposition, shall remain in guardianship, even when they have attained their majority

A complex web of cultural, social, economic and political factors, some ambiguous in nature, keeps Arab women in thrall.

The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.

We condemn any kind of abuse of Muslim women or women anywhere in the world.

I have a mother. I have a wife. I have a daughter. I have sisters. I can see just in my experience in my life, where sometimes they have been just put to the side in some of the things that they do.

If you're a woman lying on the beach in the Maldives, you might want to know that a kilometer away, another woman is being flogged. And you might want to find your own way to protest that.

Man treats woman as his own property and not as being capable of feelings, like himself. The way man treats women is much worse than the way landlords treat servants and the high-caste treat the low-caste. These treat them so demeaningly only in situations mutually affecting them; but men treat cruelly and as slaves, from their birth till death.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.