William Booth Quotes

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

The position of women in SNCC is prone!

I am a fighter. I appeal to all the women in the world. Look around, speak up.

I'm the national co-chair for the Women's March on Washington.

I'm an old feminist and member of the anti-Nazi league.

I was there when they shut down the Pentagon; I've been going on protest marches my whole life... And now, this fight against controlling and policing women's bodies feels like a war.

I've been a female activist since the time I was 13 years old.

The challenging of repression by a new generation of activists - from Malala Yousafzai to Pussy Riot - across the globe reminded us how many women are still fighting for basic human rights. Our great-grandmothers' struggle in all its shocking detail seemed so relevant.

In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you need bodies in the streets for women's rights and human rights.

We women have to stick together.

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political. I say that because I really hate politicians, so I don't fancy sitting around and thinking about them all the time.

I focus on a lot of women's issues.

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.

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.

We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life.

Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.

I have long ties to the women's community.

I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building into the second wave of the women's movement. I didn't know my small-drop presence or usefulness in this accumulation.