Woman Rights Quotes

A free man is a noble being; a free woman is a contemptible being.

Women's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!

Can man be free if woman be a slave?

American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low ideas of womanhood, to make laws for you and your daughters awake to the danger of your present position and demand that woman, too, shall be represented in the government!

I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.

By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don't think you can call it rape

You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.

Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

No man does right by a woman at a party.

I am not an ux. I am a person and a woman. I am not appended to my husband. We are just married.

I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.

I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.

I think every woman in this country will understand what it means to be mansplained to. It happens in everyday life - you know, if you go into a shop, or you're talking about finance.

If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?

Fortunately, when Benazir Bhutto was prime minister, she banned public whipping of women - banned whipping of women, period, which is a marvelous thing she did.

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

Politics is not the Business of a Woman.

The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These storms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.