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All men would be tyrants if they could.
Sep 10, 2025
Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.
Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
What I've learned is you treat women right.
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.
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.
The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.
To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.
We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.
Don't miss out on the love of a good women,son. No matter what that old man of yours tells you,love is real.I'd have never had the success in my life without the women right there.She's been my backbone.She's been my reason for everything I've ever done.One day your drive to make a name for yourself will begin to drift away. It won't be that important anymore.But when you're doing it for someone else, someone you would move heaven and earth for then you never lose the desire to succeed.I can't imagine this world without her in it.I don't ever want to.
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'
Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government.
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.