Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Women S Rights Quotes
EmpowermentEqualityFair PayLabor RightsWomen S Rights Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
Gender EqualityHistorical PerspectivesReligion and SocietySocial ChangeWomen S Rights The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
FeminismGender EqualityOppressionSocial JusticeWomen S Rights The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.
Constitutional RightsReligious InfluenceRespect for BeliefsWomen S RightsWorkplace Freedom I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don't share that belief.
AutonomyEqualityFreedomJusticeWomen S Rights The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
EqualityPolicy ImpactReproductive RightsSocial JusticeWomen S Rights Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.
Decision MakingEmpowermentEqualityGender EqualityWomen S Rights I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
Academic ChallengesDiscriminationGender EqualityLegal EducationWomen S Rights The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.
Breaking BarriersEmpowermentGender EqualityProgressWomen S Rights Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.
Decision MakingGender InequalityRepresentationWomen S Rights Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Women S Rights The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
EqualityFreedomJusticeReproductive RightsWomen S Rights We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.
Legal HistoryLegislative ProcessesSocial ChangeWomen S Rights Remember that before 'Roe v. Wade' was decided, there were four states that allowed abortion in the first trimester if that's what the woman sought: New York, Hawaii, California, Alaska. Other states were shifting. And people were fighting over this issue in state legislatures.
AutonomyControlEmpowermentHealthWomen S Rights Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.
FreedomGender EqualitySocial JusticeWomen S Rights A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
Access to HealthcareEqualityHealth RightsSocial JusticeWomen S Rights 'Whole Women's Health' made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.
